arXiv · nlin/0701024
Non-equilibrium Lorentz gas on a curved space
Abstract
The periodic Lorentz gas with external field and iso-kinetic thermostat is equivalent, by conformal transformation, to a billiard with expanding phase-space and slightly distorted scatterers, for which the trajectories are straight lines. A further time rescaling allows to keep the speed constant in that new geometry. In the hyperbolic regime, the stationary state of this billiard is characterized by a phase-space contraction rate, equal to that of the iso-kinetic Lorentz gas. In contrast to the iso-kinetic Lorentz gas where phase-space contraction occurs in the bulk, the phase-space contraction rate here takes place at the periodic boundaries.
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Felipe Barra, Thomas Gilbert. 2007-01-12. Non-equilibrium Lorentz gas on a curved space. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468%2F2007%2F01%2Fl01003
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