Analysis reveals convergence of point particle behavior under a magnetic field to Brownian motion, suggesting fundamental insights into gas dynamics.
Consider the motion of a charged, point particle moving in the complement of a Poisson distribution of hard sphere scatterers in two dimensions under the effect of a fixed magnetic field. Building on, and extending a coupling method established by the authors [Lutsko and Tóth, Commun. Math. Phys. 379, 589–632 (2020)], we show that this “magnetic Lorentz gas” satisfies an invariance principle in an intermediate scaling limit. That is, we apply the low-density (Boltzmann–Grad) limit and simultaneously take the limit as time goes to infinity, then prove convergence of the rescaled trajectory to a Brownian motion in this limit.
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