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We study the effect of Chandrasekhar and Holstmark's distribution of field fluctuations on the dynamics of N-body systems interacting via Coulomb or Newton gravitational force. We develop an approach based on statistical dynamics first…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Y. Chaffi , R. Casta , L. Brenig

Under low-collisionality conditions the isotropic part of the electron velocity distribution function in a plasma becomes non-local and the electrons can be described by a single global distribution function . This is also the regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Uwe Czarnetzki

Three dimensional self-gravitating systems do not evolve to thermodynamic equilibrium, but become trapped in nonequilibrium quasistationary states. In this Letter we present a theory which allows us to a priori predict the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-09 Fernanda P. C. Benetti , Ana C. Ribeiro-Teixeira , Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

In this paper we study the kinetic theory of many-particle astrophysical systems and we present a consistent version of the collisionless Boltzmann equation in the 1PN approximation. We argue that the equation presented by Rezania and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 C. A. Agón , J. F. Pedraza , J. Ramos-Caro

We introduce an accurate non-Hermitian Schr\"odinger-type approximation of Bloch optical equations for two-level systems. This approximation provides a complete description of the excitation, relaxation and decoherence dynamics in both weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Raiju Puthumpally-Joseph , Maxim Sukharev , Eric Charron

Though one dimensional self-gravitating $N$-body systems have been studied for three decade, the nature of relaxation was still unclear. There were inconsistent results about relaxation time; some initial state relaxed in the time scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Toshio Tsuchiya , Naoteru Gouda , Tetsuro Konishi

From the microscopic theory, we derive a number conserving quantum kinetic equation, valid for a dilute Bose gas at any temperature, in which the binary collisions between the quasi-particles are mediated by phonon-like excitations (called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Navez

We analyze the convergence to equilibrium in a family of Kac-like kinetic equations in multiple space dimensions. These equations describe the change of the velocity distribution in a spatially homogeneous gas due to binary collisions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Federico Bassetti , Daniel Matthes

Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational $N$-body system. It is shown that when the initial one particle distribution function satisfies the virial condition -- potential energy is minus twice the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-25 Yan Levin , Renato Pakter , Felipe B. Rizzato

A possible approach to description of the non equilibrium system has been proposed. Based on the Fokker-Plank equation in term of energy for non equilibrium distribution function of macroscopical system was obtained the stationary solution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-08 Bohdan Lev

The relaxation behaviour of isolated quantum systems taken out of equilibrium is among the most intriguing questions in many-body physics. Quantum systems out of equilibrium typically relax to thermal equilibrium states by scrambling local…

Starting from Boltzmann equation with relaxation time approximation for the collision term and using Chapman-Enskog like expansion for distribution function close to equilibrium, we derive hydrodynamic evolution equations for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-22 Amaresh Jaiswal

Half-space problems in the kinetic theory of gases are of great importance in the study of the asymptotic behavior of solutions of boundary value problems for the Boltzmann equation for small Knudsen numbers. In this work a generally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Niclas Bernhoff

The general scheme for the treatment of relaxation processes and temporal autocorrelations of dynamical variables for many particle systems is presented in framework of the recurrence relations approach. The time autocorrelation functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-10 Anatolii V. Mokshin

The issue of the relaxation to equilibrium has been at the core of the kinetic theory of rarefied gas dynamics. In the paper, we introduce the Deep Neural Network (DNN) approximated solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Hyung Ju Hwang , Jin Woo Jang , Hyeontae Jo , Jae Yong Lee

The density of states of self-gravitational system diverges when the particles are spread to infinity. Other problem based an inhomogeneous distribution of particles,which motivate the gravitational interaction. In this sense the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

We present an elementary, general, and semi-quantitative description of relaxation to gaussian and generalized Gibbs states in lattice models of fermions or bosons with quadratic hamiltonians. Our arguments apply to arbitrary initial states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-07 Chaitanya Murthy , Mark Srednicki

Certain thermal non-equilibrium situations, outside of the astrophysical realm, suggest that entropy production extrema, instead of entropy extrema, are related to stationary states. In an effort to better understand the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams

We study slow relaxation processes in the point vortex model for the two-dimensional pure electron plasma under the strong magnetic field. By numerical simulations, it is shown that, from an initial state, the system undergoes the fast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ryo Kawahara , Hiizu Nakanishi

In the study of relaxation processes in coherent non-equilibrium dynamics of quenched quantum systems, ultracold atoms in optical superlattices with periodicity two provide a very fruitful test ground. In this work, we consider the dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Flesch , M. Cramer , I. P. McCulloch , U. Schollwoeck , J. Eisert