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We consider a kinetic model whose evolution is described by a Boltzmann-like equation for the one-particle phase space distribution $f(x,v,t)$. There are hard-sphere collisions between the particles as well as collisions with randomly fixed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Raffaele Esposito , Pedro G. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz , Rossana Marra

In this paper, we prove the compressible Euler limit from the Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisional kernel and complete diffusive boundary condition in half-space by employing the Hilbert expansion which includes interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Shaojun Tang

For the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with hard po- tentials and Grad's cutoff (e.g. hard spheres), we give quantitative estimates of exponential convergence to equilibrium, and we show that the rate of exponential decay is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

We review the quantum version of the linear Boltzmann equation, which describes in a non-perturbative fashion, by means of scattering theory, how the quantum motion of a single test particle is affected by collisions with an ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

It is expected in physics that the homogeneous quantum Boltzmann equation with Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein statistics and with Maxwell-Boltzmann operator (neglecting effect of the statistics) for the weak coupled gases will converge to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Ling-Bing He , Xuguang Lu , Mario Pulvirenti

We consider the Nelson model which describes a quantum system of nonrelativistic identical particles coupled to a possibly massless scalar Bose field through a Yukawa type interaction. We study the limiting behaviour of that model in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ginibre , F. Nironi , G. Velo

We prove the appearance of an explicit lower bound on the solution to the full Boltzmann equation in the torus for a broad family of collision kernels including in particular long-range interaction models, under the assumption of some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

A most simple theoretical argument is given in order to explain the quantitative estimate of the effect of collisional decoherence in matter-wave interferometry. The argument highlights the relevance of quantum and classical features in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Vacchini

It is known that the singularity in the non-cutoff cross-section of the Boltzmann equation leads to the gain of regularity and gain of weight in the velocity variable. By defining and analyzing a non-isotropy norm which precisely captures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

We construct bounded classical solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the whole space without specifying any limit behaviors at the spatial infinity and without assuming the smallness condition on initial data. More precisely, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

Recently, Mueller and Son discussed the time evolution of a dense system towards equilibrium in a scalar field theory. They show the equivalence of the classical field approximation and the Boltzmann equation in all but linear terms in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Stockamp

In Echo experiments, imperfect time-reversal operations are performed on a subset of the total number of degrees of freedom. To capture the physics of these experiments, we introduce a partial fidelity, the Boltzmann echo, where only part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cyril Petitjean , Philippe Jacquod

We show that the widely used relaxation time approximation to the relativistic Boltzmann equation contains basic flaws, being incompatible with microscopic and macroscopic conservation laws. We propose a new approximation that fixes such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Gabriel S. Rocha , Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation (or the relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation) describes the dynamics of single-species fast-moving quantum particles. With the recent development of the relativistic quantum mechanics, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Gi-Chan Bae , Jin Woo Jang , Seok-Bae Yun

The spectrum structure of the linearized relativistic Boltzmann equation around a global Maxwellian is studied in this paper. Based on the spectrum analysis, we establish the optimal time-convergence rates of the global solution to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Shijia Zhao , Mingying Zhong

In this paper, we establish the global in time hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann equation to the planar rarefaction wave of compressible Euler system in three dimensional space $x\in\mathbb{R}^3$ for general collision kernels. Our approch is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Guanfa Wang , Yong Wang , Jiawei Zhou

Nonlinear electrical response permits a unique window into effects of band structure geometry. It can be calculated either starting from a Boltzmann approach for small frequencies, or using Kubo's formula for resonances at finite frequency.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

The Boltzmann equation is essential for gas thermodynamics,as it models how the molecular density distribution $F(t,x,v)$ changes over time. However, existing research primarily focuses on the single species Boltzmann equation, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang , Tianfang Wu

Although the compressible fluid limit of the Boltzmann equation with cutoff has been well investigated in [6] and [13], it still remains largely open to obtain analogous results in case of the angular non-cutoff or even in the grazing limit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu