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Time dependence for barrier penetration is considered in the phase space. An asymptotic phase-space propagator for nonrelativistic scattering on a one - dimensional barrier is constructed. The propagator has a form universal for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

Interband effects such as coherence/tunneling have recently been shown to give an important contribution to the charge and heat transport properties under certain conditions. These can be captured by adding corrective terms to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-05 Elena Trukhan , Nakib H. Protik

In this work we consider the classical non-linear Boltzmann equation, where the unknown is the distribution function $f$, which depends on the time $t$, the vector $\mathbf{x}$ (the position of a molecule) and its velocity $\mathbf{\xi}$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Armando Majorana

A general lattice Boltzmann method for simulation of fluids with tailored transport coefficients is presented. It is based on the recently introduced quasi-equilibrium kinetic models, and a general lattice Boltzmann implementation is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ansumali , S. Arcidiacono , S. Chikatamarla , N. I. Prasianakis , A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

A quasiparticle description of various condensed media is a very popular tool in study of their transport and thermodynamic properties. I present here a microscopic theory for the description of diffusion processes in two-component gas of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander V. Zhukov

We investigate an ideal gas in a time--dependent external trapping potential. We use the Boltzmann equation with the relaxation time ansatz to explore the time--dependent energy of an adiabatically isolated system. In particular we are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-18 Markus Wenin

We use the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation to study the expansion of a dilute Fermi gas at unitarity. We focus, in particular, on the approach to the hydrodynamic limit. Our main finding are: i) In the regime that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kevin Dusling , Thomas Schaefer

We study the kinetic theory of a weakly interacting quantum field. Assuming a state that is close to homogeneous and stationary, we derive a closed kinetic equation for the rate of change of the occupation numbers, perturbatively in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xu-Yao Hu , Vladimir Rosenhaus

A direct numerical solution of the steady-state Boltzmann equation in a cylindrical geometry is reported. Finite-size effects are investigated in large semiconducting nanowires using the relaxation-time approximation. A nanowire is modelled…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Venkat S. Sundaram , Ari Mizel

In this paper, explicit method of constructing approximations (the Triangle Entropy Method) is developed for nonequilibrium problems. This method enables one to treat any complicated nonlinear functionals that fit best the physics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

This work is devoted to the analysis of the linear Boltzmann equation in a bounded domain, in the presence of a force deriving from a potential. The collision operator is allowed to be degenerate in the following two senses: (1) the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Daniel Han-Kwan , Matthieu Léautaud

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

In this paper we study the asymptotic phase space energy distribution of solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to be with slowly decaying correlations. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Christophe Gomez

We study quantum phase coherence and weak localization (WL) in disordered metals with restricted back-scattering and phenomenologically formulate a large class of unconventional transport mechanisms as modified diffusion processes not…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-06 Shimul Akhanjee

The relativistic quantum Boltzmann equation (or the relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation) describes the dynamics of single-species fast-moving quantum particles. With the recent development of the relativistic quantum mechanics, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Gi-Chan Bae , Jin Woo Jang , Seok-Bae Yun

For low density gases the validity of the Boltzmann transport equation is well established. The central object is the one-particle distribution function, $f$, which in the Boltzmann-Grad limit satisfies the Boltzmann equation. Grad and,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Herbert Spohn

We introduce the Wigner functional representing a quantum field in terms of the field amplitudes and their conjugate momenta. The equation of motion for the functional of a scalar field point out the relevance of solutions of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Mrowczynski , B. Mueller

In this article we try to bridge the gap between the quantum dynamical semigroup and Wigner function approaches to quantum open systems. In particular we study stationary states and the long time asymptotics for the quantum Fokker-Planck…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Anton Arnold , Franco Fagnola , Lukas Neumann

The solutions of the Wigner-transformed time-dependent Hartree--Fock--Bogoliubov equations are studied in the constant-$\Delta$ approximation. This approximation is known to violate particle-number conservation. As a consequence, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. I. Abrosimov , D. M. Brink , A. Dellafiore , F. Matera

We consider the linear Wigner-Fokker-Planck equation subject to confining potentials which are smooth perturbations of the harmonic oscillator potential. For a certain class of perturbations we prove that the equation admits a unique…