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This article investigates the full Boltzmann equation up to second order in the cosmological perturbations. Describing the distribution of polarized radiation by using a tensor valued distribution function, the second order Boltzmann…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-03 Cyril Pitrou

Consider the initial-boundary value problem for the 2-speed Carleman model of the Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases set in some bounded interval with boundary conditions prescribing the density of particles entering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-27 François Golse , Francesco Salvarani

Correct prediction of particle transport by surface waves is crucial in many practical applications such as search and rescue or salvage operations and pollution tracking and clean-up efforts. Recent results have indicated transport by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-26 D. Eeltink , R. Calvert , J. E. Swagemakers , Qian Xiao , T. S. van den Bremer

We present a framework for the solution of Boltzmann's equation in the swarm limit for arbitrary mass ratio, allowing for solutions of electron or ion transport. An arbitrary basis set can be used in the framework, which is achieved by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 D. A. Konovalov , D. G. Cocks , R. D. White

A novel refinement of the conventional treatment of Kadanoff--Baym equations is suggested. Besides the Boltzmann equation another differential equation is used for calculating the evolution of the non-equilibrium two-point function.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Jakovac

Bloch-Boltzmann transport theory fails to describe the carrier diffusion in current crystalline organic semiconductors, where the presence of large-amplitude thermal molecular motions causes substantial dynamical disorder. The charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Fratini , S. Ciuchi

This study investigates the steady Boltzmann equation in one spatial variable for a polyatomic single-component gas in a half-space. Inflow boundary conditions are assumed at the half-space boundary, where particles entering the half-space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Niclas Bernhoff , Stephane Brull , Eddie Wadbro

The relativistic Boltzmann equation in bounded domains has been widely used in physics and engineering, for example, Tokamak devices in fusion reactors.In spite of its importance, there has, to the best of our knowledge, been no…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Yong Wang , Changguo Xiao

We calculate the electronic transport properties of a system which is irradiated by a homogeneous microwave field. Within a Boltzmann equation approach, a general expression for the conductivity tensor is derived and evaluated for a quasi…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tobias Brandes

We generalize Einstein's master equation for random walk processes by considering that the probability for a particle at position $r$ to make a jump of length $j$ lattice sites, $P_j(r)$ is a functional of the particle distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. P. Boon , J. F. Lutsko

We introduce a novel approach to model heat transport in solids, based on the Green-Kubo theory of linear response. It naturally bridges the Boltzmann kinetic approach in crystals and the Allen-Feldman model in glasses, leveraging…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 Leyla Isaeva , Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Davide Donadio , Stefano Baroni

We show that several diffusion-based approximations (classical diffusion or SP1, SP2, SP3) to the linear Boltzmann equation can (for an infinite, homogeneous medium) be represented exactly by a non-classical transport equation. As a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Martin Frank , Kai Krycki , Edward W. Larsen , Richard Vasques

Effects of the propagation of particles, which have a finite life-time and an according width in their mass spectrum, are discussed in the context of transport description. First, the importance of coherence effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Yu. B. Ivanov , J. Knoll , H. van Hees , D. N. Voskresensky

We provide a linear analysis on normal modes of the spin Boltzmann equation proposed in \cite{Weickgenannt:2021cuo}, where the non-diagonal or polarized part of the transition rate is neglected to ensure the Hermitian property of linearized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jin Hu

The Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the phase-space probability distribution of classical particles under binary collisions. Approximations to it underlie the basis for several scholarly fields, including aerodynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 George J. Wilkie , Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow

In this presentation we overview some recent results on biased tracer diffusion in lattice gases. We consider both models in which the gas particles density is explicitly conserved and situations in which the lattice gas particles undergo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Oshanin , O. Benichou , S. F. Burlatsky , M. Moreau

A quantum finite multi-barrier system, with a periodic potential, is considered and exact expressions for its plane wave amplitudes are obtained using the Transfer Matrix method [10]. This quantum model is then associated with a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

The isospin diffusion and other irreversible phenomena are discussed for a two-component nuclear Fermi system. The set of Boltzmann transport equations, such as employed for reactions, are linearized, for weak deviations of a system from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Shi , P. Danielewicz

We investigate the random flight process that arises as the Boltzmann-Grad limit of a random scatterer Lorentz gas with variable scatterer density in a gravitational field. For power function densities we show how the parameters of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Krzysztof Burdzy , Douglas Rizzolo