Dimensional crossover via confinement in the lattice Lorentz gas
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| author | Squarcini, A. Tinti, A. Illien, P. Bénichou, O. Franosch, T. |
| author_facet | Squarcini, A. Tinti, A. Illien, P. Bénichou, O. Franosch, T. |
| contents | We consider a lattice model in which a tracer particle moves in the presence of randomly distributed immobile obstacles. The crowding effect due to the obstacles interplays with the quasi-confinement imposed by wrapping the lattice onto a cylinder. We compute the velocity autocorrelation function and show that already in equilibrium the system exhibits a dimensional crossover from two- to one-dimensional as time progresses. A pulling force is switched on and we characterize analytically the stationary state in terms of the stationary velocity and diffusion coefficient. Stochastic simulations are used to discuss the range of validity of the analytic results. Our calculation, exact to first order in the obstacle density, holds for arbitrarily large forces and confinement size. |
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| spellingShingle | Dimensional crossover via confinement in the lattice Lorentz gas Squarcini, A. Tinti, A. Illien, P. Bénichou, O. Franosch, T. Statistical Mechanics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter We consider a lattice model in which a tracer particle moves in the presence of randomly distributed immobile obstacles. The crowding effect due to the obstacles interplays with the quasi-confinement imposed by wrapping the lattice onto a cylinder. We compute the velocity autocorrelation function and show that already in equilibrium the system exhibits a dimensional crossover from two- to one-dimensional as time progresses. A pulling force is switched on and we characterize analytically the stationary state in terms of the stationary velocity and diffusion coefficient. Stochastic simulations are used to discuss the range of validity of the analytic results. Our calculation, exact to first order in the obstacle density, holds for arbitrarily large forces and confinement size. |
| title | Dimensional crossover via confinement in the lattice Lorentz gas |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04289 |