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We discuss the approach to equilibrium of systems governed by the Fokker-Planck equation. In particular, we focus on problems involving barrier penetration and the associated Kramers' time. We also describe the connection between stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Samanta , J. K. Bhattacharjee

The Boltzmann type kinetic equation for solitons in Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation has been constructed on the base of analysis of two soliton collision. Possible applications for Langmuir solitons in plasma and solitons in optic fiber…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 I. V. Baryakhtar

We present a general framework in which we can accurately describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of trapped atomic gases. This is achieved by deriving a single Fokker-Planck equation for the gas. In this way we are able to discuss not only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. C. Stoof

We show that optomechanical systems can test the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton equation of gravitational quantum mechanics due to Yang et al. This equation is motivated by semiclassical gravity, a widely used theory of interacting gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 C. C. Gan , C. M. Savage , S. Z. Scully

A thermodynamic analogue of the Pauli problem (reconstruction of a wavefunction from the position and momentum distributions) is formulated. The coordinates of a quantum system are replaced by the inverse absolute temperature and other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-02 Artur E. Ruuge

We consider the non-relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation for fermions and bosons. Using the nonlinear energy method and mild formulation, we justify the global well-posedness when the density function is near the global Maxwellian and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Zhimeng Ouyang , Lei Wu

The interaction of radio-frequency waves with a plasma is described by a Fokker-Planck equation with an added quasilinear term. Methods for solving this equation on a computer are discussed.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles F. F. Karney

One of the main challenges in physics today is to merge quantum theory and the theory of general relativity into a unified framework. Various approaches towards developing such a theory of quantum gravity are pursued, but the lack of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Igor Pikovski , Michael R. Vanner , Markus Aspelmeyer , Myungshik Kim , Caslav Brukner

Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexandre Mouton , Thomas Rey

This paper describes perturbative framework, on the basis of the closed-time-path formalism, in terms of quasiparticle picture for studying quasiuniform relativistic quantum field systems near equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasistationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 A. Niégawa

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

Some recent results concerning nonlinear optics in semiconductor microcavities are reviewed from the point of view of the many-body physics of an interacting photon gas. Analogies with systems of cold atoms at thermal equilibrium are drawn,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Iacopo Carusotto , Michiel Wouters , Cristiano Ciuti

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

A new approach to quantum Markov processes is developed and the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation is derived. The latter is examined to reproduce known results from classical and quantum physics. It was also applied to the phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Tsekov

We analyze and interpret recent optical experiments with semiconductor quantum dots. We derive a quantitative relation between the amount of information transferred into the environment and the optical polarization that may be observed in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Roszak , P. Machnikowski

The Boltzmann equation has been a driving force behind significant mathematical research over the years. Its challenging theoretical complexity, combined with a wide variety of current scientific and technological problems that require…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Liliane Basso Barichello

We investigate the gravitational impulse by using the generalized formulation of the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), wherein the initial states are taken as wave packets rather than plane waves. The QBE operates within an open quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

We study the classical motion of a particle subject to a stochastic force. We then present a perturbative schema for the associated Fokker-Planck equation where, in the limit of a vanishingly small noise source, a consistent dynamical model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Torres , J. M. A. Figueiredo

The quantum Lattice Boltzmann equation (QLBe), a new variant of the lattice Boltzmann equation, specifically designed to describe non relativistic quantum motion, is validated for the case of a free-particle in (1+1) space-time dimensions.…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Succi

In this work, our prime focus is to study the one to one correspondence between the conduction phenomena in electrical wires with impurity and the scattering events responsible for particle production during stochastic inflation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-16 Sayantan Choudhury , Arkaprava Mukherjee , Prashali Chauhan , Sandipan Bhattacherjee