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Recently, several authors have tried to extend the usual concepts of thermodynamics and kinetic theory in order to deal with distributions that can be non-Boltzmannian. For dissipative systems described by the canonical ensemble, this leads…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We show that the Gaussian core model of particles interacting via a penetrable repulsive Gaussian potential, first considered by Stillinger (J. Chem. Phys. 65, 3968 (1976)), behaves like a weakly correlated ``mean field fluid'' over a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Louis , P. G. Bolhuis , J. P. Hansen

We review recent quantitative results on the approximation of mean field diffusion equations by large systems of interacting particles, obtained by optimal coupling methods. These results concern a larger range of models, more precise…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 François Bolley

Context. Spacecraft observations have motivated the need for a refined description of the phase-space distribution function. Of particular importance is the pitch-angle diffusion coefficient that occurs in the Fokker-Planck transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-27 R. C. Tautz , A. Dosch , F. Effenberger , H. Fichtner , A. Kopp

A momentum-dependent mean field potential, suitable for application in the transport-model description of nucleus-nucleus collisions, is derived in a microscopic way. The derivation is based upon the Bonn meson-exchange model for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Q. Li , R. Machleidt

We study the mean-field limit for a class of agent-based models describing flocking with nonlinear velocity alignment. Each agent interacts through a communication protocol $\phi$ and a non-linear coupling of velocities given by the power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Vinh Nguyen , Roman Shvydkoy , Changhui Tan

Complex biological and physical transport processes are often described through systems of interacting particles. Excluded-volume effects on these transport processes are well studied, however the interplay between volume exclusion and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 Daniel Wilson , Helen Byrne , Maria Bruna

A mean-field monomer-dimer model which includes an attractive interaction among both monomers and dimers is introduced and its exact solution rigorously derived. The Heilmann-Lieb method for the pure hard-core interacting case is used to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Diego Alberici , Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Mingione

The interaction of partially ionized plasmas with an electromagnetic field is investigated using quantum statistical methods. A general statistical expression for the current density of a plasma in an electromagnetic field is presented and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dietrich Kremp , Dirk Semkat , Thomas Bornath , Michael Bonitz , Manfred Schlanges , Paul Hilse

We introduce a system of self-propelled agents (active Brownian particles) with velocity alignment in two spatial dimensions and derive a mean-field theory from the microscopic dynamics via a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation and a moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-26 Pawel Romanczuk , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

A structure of generator of a quantum dynamical semigroup for the dynamics of a test particle interacting through collisions with the environment is considered, which has been obtained from a microphysical model. The related master-equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bassano Vacchini

We consider a system of $N$ disordered mean-field interacting diffusions within spatial constraints: each particle $\theta_i$ is attached to one site $x_i$ of a periodic lattice and the interaction between particles $\theta_i$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Eric Luçon , Wilhelm Stannat

In this paper, we investigate gradient estimate of the Poisson equation and the exponential convergence in the Wasserstein metric $W_{1,d_{l^1}}$, uniform in the number of particles, and uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations play a major role in modeling large systems of interacting particles with a proved effectiveness in describing real world phenomena ranging from classical fields such as fluids and plasma to social and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

Examination of equilibrium radiation in plasma media shows that the spectral energy distribution of such radiation is different from the Planck equilibrium radiation. Using the approach of quantum electrodynamics the general relation for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sergey A. Trigger

We consider a monoenergetic beam of moving charged particles interacting with two separated oscillating electric fields. Time-periodic linear potential is assumed to model the light-particle interaction using a nonrelativistic, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Lóránt Zs. Szabó , Mihály G. Benedict , Péter Földi

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

We study the convergence of the empirical distribution associated with a system of interacting kinetic particles subject to independent Brownian forcing in a finite horizon setting, using some recent progress on kinetic non-linear partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Carlo Bellingeri , Fabio Coppini

In this paper we consider systems of weakly interacting particles driven by colored noise in a bistable potential, and we study the effect of the correlation time of the noise on the bifurcation diagram for the equilibrium states. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 S. N. Gomes , G. A. Pavliotis , U. Vaes

Based on classical transport theory, we present a general set of covariant equations describing the dynamics of mean fields and their statistical fluctuations in a non-Abelian plasma in or out-of-equilibrium. A procedure to obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel F. Litim , Cristina Manuel