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Fine structure of distributions and central limit theorem in diffusive billiards
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UNSPECIFIED (2005) Fine structure of distributions and central limit theorem in diffusive billiards. PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 71 (1 Part 2). -. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016220 ISSN 1063-651X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016220
Abstract
We investigate deterministic diffusion in periodic billiard models, in terms of the convergence of rescaled distributions to the limiting normal distribution required by the central limit theorem; this is stronger than the usual requirement that the mean-square displacement grow asymptotically linearly in time. The main model studied is a chaotic Lorentz gas where the central limit theorem has been rigorously proved. We study one-dimensional position and displacement densities describing the time evolution of statistical ensembles in a channel geometry, using a more refined method than histograms. We find a pronounced oscillatory fine structure, and show that this has its origin in the geometry of the billiard domain. This fine structure prevents the rescaled densities from converging pointwise to Gaussian densities; however, demodulating them by the fine structure gives new densities which seem to converge uniformly. We give an analytical estimate of the rate of convergence of the original distributions to the limiting normal distribution, based on the analysis of the fine structure, which agrees well with simulation results. We show that using a Maxwellian (Gaussian) distribution of velocities in place of unit speed velocities does not affect the growth of the mean-square displacement, but changes the limiting shape of the distributions to a non-Gaussian one. Using the same methods, we give numerical evidence that a nonchaotic polygonal channel model also obeys the central limit theorem, but with a slower convergence rate.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PHYSICAL REVIEW E | ||||
| Publisher: | AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC | ||||
| ISSN: | 1063-651X | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2005 | ||||
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| Volume: | 71 | ||||
| Number: | 1 Part 2 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||
| Page Range: | - | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016220 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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