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arxiv: math-ph/0505075 · v1 · submitted 2005-05-27 · 🧮 math-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn· math.MP

Kinetic Limit for Wave Propagation in a Random Medium

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We study crystal dynamics in the harmonic approximation. The atomic masses are weakly disordered, in the sense that their deviation from uniformity is of order epsilon^(1/2). The dispersion relation is assumed to be a Morse function and to suppress crossed recollisions. We then prove that in the limit epsilon to 0 the disorder averaged Wigner function on the kinetic scale, time and space of order epsilon^(-1), is governed by a linear Boltzmann equation.

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