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Non-Markovian quantum kinetic simulations of uniform dense plasmas: mitigating the aliasing problem

Plasma Physics 2026-04-02 v1

Abstract

Dense quantum plasmas out of equilibrium are successfully modeled using quantum kinetic equations, such as the quantum Boltzmann, Landau or Balescu-Lenard equation. However, these equations do not properly take into account correlation effects which requires to use generalized non-Markovian kinetic equations. While the latter have been successful for lattice models, applications to continuous systems such as plasmas are severely hampered by aliasing effects. Here we present a strategy how to suppress aliasing and make applications of non-Makrovian quantum kinetic equations to plasmas possible.

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@article{arxiv.2501.11954,
  title  = {Non-Markovian quantum kinetic simulations of uniform dense plasmas: mitigating the aliasing problem},
  author = {C. Makait and M. Bonitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11954},
  year   = {2026}
}