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In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the microscopic interaction of the phase transition fronts with non-equilibrium plasma particles manifests itself macroscopically as friction forces. In general, it is a nontrivial problem to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ariel Megevand

Theory of granular dissipative gas is discussed based on Boltzmann's equation and in view of recent experimental results in micro-gravity during few CNES and ESA campaigns [9,11]. It is recalled that the Boltzmann's distribution is a steady…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Evesque

The bipolar, nonthermal, high-latitude lobes known as the Fermi bubbles (FBs) are thought to originate from a massive energy release near the Galactic centre (GC). We constrain the FB engine and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Santanu Mondal , Uri Keshet , Kartick C. Sarkar , Ilya Gurwich

A systematic investigation of the average multiplicities of light charged particles and intermediate mass fragments emitted in peripheral and semiperipheral collisions is presented as a function of the beam energy, violence of the collision…

Fermi gases with repulsive interactions are characterized by measuring their compressibility as a function of interaction strength. The compressibility is obtained from in-trap density distributions monitored by phase contrast imaging. For…

The probability that a particle, crossing the shock along a given direction, be reflected backwards along another direction, was shown to be the key element in determining the spectrum of non--thermal particles accelerated via Fermi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Vietri

Weak attractive interactions in a spin-imbalanced Fermi gas induce a multi-particle instability, binding multiple fermions together. The maximum binding energy per particle is achieved when the ratio of the number of up- and down-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 T. M. Whitehead , G. J. Conduit

We analyze the transport properties of charged particles (ions and electrons) interacting with randomly formed magnetic scatterers (e.g.\ large scale local ``magnetic fluctuations'' or ``coherent magnetic irregularities'' usually present in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nikos Sioulas , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos , Argyris Koumtzis , Theophilos Pisokas

After a successful development of theoretical and numerical works on Fermi acceleration at relativistic shocks, some difficulties recently raised with the scattering issue, a crucial aspect of the process. Most pioneering works were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guy Pelletier , Martin Lemoine , A. Marcowith

The non-thermal particle spectra responsible for the emission from many astrophysical systems are thought to originate from shocks via a first order Fermi process otherwise known as diffusive shock acceleration. The same mechanism is also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Reville , A. R. Bell , G. Gregori

We develop a numerical method to study the dynamics of a two-component atomic Fermi gas trapped inside a harmonic potential at temperature T well below the Fermi temperature Tf. We examine the transition from the collisionless to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Toschi , P. Vignolo , S. Succi , M. P. Tosi

We study how the excitation energy of the fully accelerated fission fragments is built up. It is stressed that only the intrinsic excitation energy available before scission can be exchanged between the fission fragments to achieve thermal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-03 Karl-Heinz Schmidt , Beatriz Jurado

We investigate the energy dynamics of a unitary Fermi gas driven away from equilibrium. The energy is injected into the system by periodically modulating the trapping potential of a spherical unitary Fermi gas, and due to the existence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-15 Xiangchuan Yan , Jing Min , Dali Sun , Shi-Guo Peng , Xin Xie , Xizhi Wu , Kaijun Jiang

We present a detailed non-perturbative analysis of the time-evolution of a well-known quantum-mechanical system - a particle between potential walls - describing the decay of unstable states. For sufficiently high barriers, corresponding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 U. G. Aglietti , P. M. Santini

We introduce a major theoretical generalization of existing techniques for handling the three-body problem that accurately describes the interactions among four fermionic atoms. Application to a two-component Fermi gas accurately determines…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. P. D'Incao , Seth T. Rittenhouse , N. P. Mehta , Chris H. Greene

We present a systematic theory of dissipation in finite Fermi systems like nuclei and metallic clusters. This theory is based on the application of semiclassical methods and random matrix theory to linear response of many-body systems. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sudhir R. Jain

We study the kinetics of nonlinear irreversible fragmentation. Here fragmentation is induced by interactions/collisions between pairs of particles, and modelled by general classes of interaction kernels, and for several types of breakage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Ernst , I. Pagonabarraga

Differential energy structure of a micro multi-charged-particle system and the beam internal potential energy is derived with consequent property and ecessary inference. Then by combining the energy differential structure with differential…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji Luo , Chuang Zhang

The collision of two expanding plasma clouds is investigated, emphasizing instabilities and electron energization in the plasma mixing layer. This work is directly relevant to laboratory experiments with explosively-created laser or z-pinch…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. A. Malkov , V. I. Sotnikov

The current study is motivated by a difficulty to reconcile between particle number conservation and superconductivity. An alternative modeling, which is based on the hypothesis that disentanglement spontaneously ocuurs in quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Eyal Buks