One-dimensional non-relativistic and relativistic Brownian motions: a microscopic collision model

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 559-572

  Dunkel, Jörn ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice models; Random walk; Relativistic Brownian motion; Relativistic collision processes

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELATIVITY;

COLLISION MODELS; KINEMATIC CONSERVATION LAWS; LATTICE MODELS; MAXWELLIAN MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVISTIC COLLISION PROCESSES;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 33751171927     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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