Monday, December 24, 2012

1212.5482 (Carl P. Dettmann et al.)

Periodic volume fluctuations with infinite horizon: Intermittency
enhanced Fermi acceleration
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Carl P. Dettmann, Edson D. Leonel
A particle diffuses in a lattice with periodically forced volume. In the finite horizon case with bounded distance between collisions and strongly chaotic dynamics, the velocity growth (Fermi acceleration) is well described by a linear Boltzmann equation, leading to an asymptotic universal non-Maxwellian velocity distribution scaling as v ~ t. The infinite horizon has intermittent dynamics which enhances the acceleration, leading to v ~ t ln t and a non-universal distribution.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5482

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