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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08123 |
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- Long-time tails, or algebraic decay of time-correlation functions, have long been known to exist both in many-body systems and in models of non-interacting particles in the presence of quenched disorder that are often referred to as Lorentz models. In the latter, they have been studied extensively by a wide variety of methods, the best known example being what is known as weak-localization effects in disordered systems of non-interacting electrons. This paper provides a unifying, and very simple, approach to all of these effects. We show that simple modifications of the diffusion equation due to either a random diffusion coefficient, or a random scattering potential, accounts for both the decay exponents and the prefactors of the leading long-time tails in the velocity autocorrelation functions of both classical and quantum Lorentz models.