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We investigate the properties of the blackbody spectrum by direct numerical solution of the classical equations of motion of a one-dimensional model that contains the essential general features of the field-matter interaction. Our results,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-04 Jiao Wang , Giulio Casati , Giuliano Benenti

We introduce a generalised relaxation-time-approximation form of the collision term in the Boltzmann kinetic equation that allows for using different relaxation times for elastic and inelastic collisions. The efficacy of the proposed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski

Boltzmann equations are often used to describe the non-equilibrium time-evolution of many-body systems in particle physics. Prominent examples are the computation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe and the evolution of the quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Manfred Lindner , Markus Michael Muller

In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Eldad Bettelheim

In this article the linear Boltzmann equation is derived for a particle interacting with a Gaussian random field, in the weak coupling limit, with renewal in time of the random field. The initial data can be chosen arbitrarily. The proof is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Sébastien Breteaux

We derive the path integral action for a particle moving in three dimensional fuzzy space. From this we extract the classical equations of motion. These equations have rather surprising and unconventional features: They predict a cut-off in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 FG Scholtz

The quantum version of the Boltzmann transport equation (Wigner-Boltzmann equation) is a quite useful tool to investigate the effects of energy dissipation in quantum systems. Numerical approaches uses to be employed in order to stablish a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 A. R. Fernandes Nt. , L. F. Santos

When a nonrelativistic particle interacts with a scalar quantum field, the standard perturbation theory leads to a dependence of the energy of its ground state on an undefined parameter---"momentum cutoff"---due to the ultraviolet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 O. D. Skoromnik , I. D. Feranchuk , D. V. Lu , C. H. Keitel

A linear Boltzmann equation with nonautonomous collision operator is rigorously derived in the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the deterministic dynamics of a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Karsten Matthies , George Stone

We analyze critically the renormalization of quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes, using non covariant ultraviolet cutoffs. We compute explicitly the counterterms necessary to renormalize the semiclassical Einstein equations, using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-28 Mauro Elías , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

Difference Boltzmann Equation is derived in a plane wavelets representation with account of two-particle correlations. It is shown that the set of plane wavelet orthonormal functions is complete. The set of ket vectors is used as the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Alexandr A. Klyukanov

We study a fuzzy Boltzmann equation, where particles interact via delocalised collisions, in contrast to classical Boltzmann equations. We discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions and provide a natural variational characterisation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Matthias Erbar , Zihui He

We consider the kinetic theory of the quantum and classical Toda lattice models. A kinetic equation of Bethe-Boltzmann type is derived for the distribution function of conserved quasiparticles. Near the classical limit, we show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-23 Vir B. Bulchandani , Xiangyu Cao , Joel E. Moore

We construct a novel class of exact solutions to the Boltzmann equation, in both its classical and quantum formulation, for arbitrary collision laws. When the system is subjected to a specific external forcing, the precise form of which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Guéry-Odelin , J. G. Muga , M. J. Ruiz-Montero , E. Trizac

A challenging problem in solving the Boltzmann equation numerically is that the velocity space is approximated by a finite region. Therefore, most methods are based on a truncation technique and the computational cost is then very high if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Minh-Binh Tran

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

The goal of this article is to investigate the dynamics of semi-relativistic or non-relativistic charged particles in interaction with a scalar meson field. Our main contribution is the derivation of the classical dynamics of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Shahnaz Farhat

The Boltzmann equation without an angular cutoff is considered when the initial data is a small perturbation of a global Maxwellian with an algebraic decay in the velocity variable. A well-posedness theory in the perturbative framework is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Ricardo Alonso , Yoshinori Morimoto , Weiran Sun , Tong Yang

A systematic derivation of Boltzmann equation is presented in the framework of closed-time-path formalism. Introducing a new type of probe, the expectation value of number operator is calculated as a functional of source. Then solving for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun Koide

Stochastic electrodynamics is the classical electrodynamic theory of interacting point charges which includes random classical radiation with a Lorentz-invariant spectrum whose scale is set by Planck's constant. Here we give a cursory…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Timothy H. Boyer