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A stochastic theory is presented for a quantum vortex that is expected to occur in superfluids coated on two dimensional sphere $ {\rm S}^2 $. The starting point is the canonical equation of motion (the Kirchhoff equation) for a point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hiroshi Kuratsuji

We study an effective field theory of a vortex lattice in a two-dimensional neutral rotating superfluid. Utilizing particle-vortex dualities, we explore its formulation in terms of a $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to elasticity, that at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-29 Yi-Hsien Du , Ho Tat Lam , Leo Radzihovsky

We derive the virial theorem appropriate to two-dimensional point vortices at statistical equilibrium in the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. In an unbounded domain, it relates the angular velocity to the angular momentum and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We construct and analyse two-dimensional, current-carrying ring solutions, known as kinky vortons, in the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric global two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM). We demonstrate the existence of multiple dynamically stable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Richard A. Battye , Steven J. Cotterill , Adam K. Thomasson

A dilute gas of hard disks confined between two straight parallel lines is considered. The distance between the two boundaries is in between one and two particle diameters, so that the system is quasi-one-dimensional. A Boltzmann-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-13 M. Mayo , J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We develop the kinetic theory of Hamiltonian systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear theory, we obtain a general kinetic equation that can be applied to spatially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

As a model for vortex-wall interactions, we consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in the half-plane $R^2_+$ with no-slip boundary condition and point vortices as initial data. We focus on the paradigmatic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Thierry Gallay

The kinetic theory for a fluid of hard spheres which undergo endothermic and/or exothermic reactions with mass transfer is developed. The exact balance equations for concentration, density, velocity and temperature are derived. The Enskog…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James F. Lutsko

This paper considers a kinetic equation for an unbounded two-dimensional single species point vortex system. No axisymmetric flow is assumed. Using the kinetic theory based on the Klimontovich formalism, we derive a collision term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Yuichi Yatsuyanagi , Tadatsugu Hatori

The two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are rewritten as a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. These equations describe the evolution of the moments of an expansion of the vorticity with respect to Hermite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Ray Nagem , Guido Sandri , David Uminsky , C. Eugene Wayne

In this paper, we show that the Kirchhoff equations are derived from the Schr\"odinger equation by assuming the wave function to be a polynomial like solution. These Kirchhoff equations describe the evolution of $n$ point vortices in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 K. V. S. Shiv Chaitanya

The aim of this paper is to derive macroscopic equations for processes on large co-evolving networks, examples being opinion polarization with the emergence of filter bubbles or other social processes such as norm development. This leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Martin Burger

The global asymptotic dynamics of point vortices for the lake equations is rigorously derived. Vorticity that is initially sharply concentrated around $N$ distinct vortex centers is proven to remain concentrated for all times. Specifically,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Lars Eric Hientzsch , Christophe Lacave , Evelyne Miot

A kinetic-fluid model describing the evolutions of disperse two-phase flows is considered. The model consists of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation for the particles (disperse phase) coupled with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Fucai Li , Yanmin Mu , Dehua Wang

We develop a unified kinetic theory for ordered fluids, which systematically extends the phase space with the appropriate generalized angular momenta. Our theory yields a uniquely determined mesoscopic model for any continuum with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 José A. Carrillo , Patrick E. Farrell , Andrea Medaglia , Umberto Zerbinati

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of perfect fluids without boost invariance [1] from kinetic theory. Our approach is to follow the standard derivation of the Vlasov hierarchy based on an a-priori unknown collision functional satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Kevin T. Grosvenor , Niels A. Obers , Subodh P. Patil

We study isolated, stationary, axially symmetric vortex solutions in (2+1)-dimensional viscous conformal fluids. The equations describing them can be brought to the form of three coupled first order ODEs for the radial and rotational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Jarah Evslin , Chethan Krishnan