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Bose-Einstein condensation is a remarkable manifestation of quantum statistics and macroscopic quantum coherence. Superconductivity and superfluidity have their origin in Bose-Einstein condensation. Ultracold quantum gases have provided…

The correct modelling of velocity distribution functions for particles in steady-state plasmas is a central element in the study of nuclear fusion and also in the description of space plasmas. In this work, a statistical mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Avaria , Biswajit Bora , Jalaj Jain , José Moreno , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

Thermal fluctuations tend to destroy long-range phase correlations. Consequently, bosons in a lattice will undergo a transition from a phase-coherent superfluid as the temperature rises. Contrary to common intuition, however, we show that…

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We study the nonequlibrium state of heat conduction in a one-dimensional system of hard point particles of unequal masses interacting through elastic collisions. A BBGKY-type formulation is presented and some exact results are obtained from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Abhishek Dhar

We report the first experimental observation of dissipation-driven coherent quantum many-body oscillation, and this oscillation is manifested as the coherent exchange of atoms between the thermal and the condensate components in a…

We investigate the connection between thermal light and coherent pulses, constructing mixtures of single pulses that yield the same first-order, equal-space-point correlation function as thermal light. We present mixtures involving (i)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Aurélia Chenu , Agata M. Brańczyk , J. E. Sipe

The equilibrium size and temperature limits of thermally and chemically equilibrated $e^+e^-\gamma$ plasma drops are investigated at a given energy content. For a plasma to be equilibrated it must be opaque to electron and photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Inga Kuznetsova , Dieter Habs , Johann Rafelski

We examine the equilibrium properties of hot, dilute, non-relativistic plasmas. The partition function and density correlation functions of a classical plasma with several species are expressed in terms of a functional integral over…

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We introduce the first simple mechanical system that shows fully realistic transport behavior while still being exactly solvable at the level of equilibrium statistical mechanics. The system under consideration is a Lorentz gas with fixed…

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The microphysical, kinetic properties of astrophysical plasmas near accreting compact objects are still poorly understood. For instance, in modern general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the relation between the temperature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Claudio Meringolo , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

We develop a relativistic lattice Boltzmann (LB) model, providing a more accurate description of dissipative phenomena in relativistic hydrodynamics than previously available with existing LB schemes. The procedure applies to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Mendoza , I. Karlin , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

An effective approach to isolation of sub-micro sized particles is desired to separate cancer and healthy cells or in therapy of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. However, since bioparticles span a large size range comprising several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Aleksandra Słapik , Jerzy Łuczka , Jakub Spiechowicz

The Coulomb log (log {\Lambda}) approximation is widely used to approximate electron transport coefficients in dense plasmas. It is a classical approximation to the momentum transport cross section. The accuracy of this approximation for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Charles Starrett

A novel formulation of the electron energy relaxation terms is presented here, which is applicable to plasma flows and discharges wherein the electron temperature could be higher or lower than the gas temperature. It is demonstrated that…

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Starting from the Helmholtz free energy we calculate analytically first- and second-order derivatives, as internal energy and specific heats, for the ideal system and the exchange and correlation interactions covering a broad range of…

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A recent proposal of accelerator based fusion reactor considers a scheme where an ion beam from the accelerator hits the target plasma on the resonance of the fusion reaction so that the reactivity ($\sigma v$) can be an order of magnitude…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Keh-Fei Liu

In this short note, we present some work on investigating electron temperatures and potentials in steady or unsteady dilute plasma flows. The analysis is based on the detailed fluid model for electrons. Ionization, normalized electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Xin He

The time sequences of the molecular dynamics simulation for the folding process of a protein is analyzed with the inherent structure landscape which focuses on configurational dynamics of the system. Time dependent energy and entropy for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-13 Naoko Nakagawa

We investigate the theoretical foundations of the simulated tempering method and use our findings to design efficient algorithms. Employing a large deviation argument first used for replica exchange molecular dynamics [Plattner et al., J.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Anton Martinsson , Jianfeng Lu , Benedict Leimkuhler , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

The thermodynamical properties of the photon-plasma system had been studied using statistical physics approach. Photons develop an effective mass in the medium thus -- as a result of the finite chemical potential -- a photon Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Peter Mati