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Consider a microscopic system of $N$ hard spheres that are initially independent (modulo the exclusion condition on particle positions) and identically distributed in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the number $N$ of particles goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

Developing measures of quantum ergodicity and chaos stands as a foundational task in the study of quantum many-body systems. In this work, we propose metrics for these effects based on Hamiltonian learning that unify multiple advantages of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Nik O. Gjonbalaj , Christian Kokail , Susanne F. Yelin , Soonwon Choi

We show that the Kac particle system converges, as the number of particles tends to infinity, to the solution of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, in the regime of moderately soft potentials, $\gamma \in (-2,0)$ with the common notation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Nicolas Fournier , Stéphane Mischler

The notion of a successful coupling of Markov processes, based on the idea that both components of the coupled system ``intersect'' in finite time with probability one, is extended to cover situations when the coupling is unnecessarily…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Blank , Sergey Pirogov

The envelope theory is a method to easily obtain approximate, but reliable, solutions for some quantum many-body problems. Quite general Hamiltonians can be considered for systems composed of an arbitrary number of different particles in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Lorenzo Cimino , Claude Semay

The thermal or equilibrium ensemble is one of the most ubiquitous states of matter. For models comprised of many locally interacting quantum particles, it describes a wide range of physical situations, relevant to condensed matter physics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Álvaro M. Alhambra

We investigate a particle system which is a discrete and deterministic approximation of the one-dimensional Keller-Segel equation with a logarithmic potential. The particle system is derived from the gradient flow of the homogeneous free…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Vincent Calvez , Thomas Gallouët

In this letter we discuss the validity of the ergodicity hypothesis in theories of violent relaxation in long-range interacting systems. We base our reasoning on the Hamiltonian Mean Field model and show that the life-time of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Annibal Figueiredo , Tarcisio Marciano da Rocha Filho , Marco Antonio Amato

A completely Lorentz-invariant Bohmian model has been proposed recently for the case of a system of non-interacting spinless particles, obeying Klein-Gordon equations. It is based on a multi-temporal formalism and on the idea of treating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Sergio Hernandez-Zapata , Ernesto Hernandez-Zapata

In this paper we propose a notion of stability, that we call $\epsilon -N$-stability, for systems of particles interacting via Newton's gravitational potential, and orbiting a much bigger object. For these systems the usual thermodynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Gabriella Pinzari , Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani

We consider a large class of interacting particle systems in 1D described by an energy whose interaction potential is singular and non-local. This class covers Riesz gases (in particular, log gases) and applications to plasticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Masato Kimura , Patrick van Meurs

In this work we adapt the foundations of relativistic kinetic theory and the Boltzmann equation to particles with Lorentz-violating dispersion relations. The latter are taken to be those associated to two commonly considered sets of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Robertus Potting

We investigate the large time behavior of solutions to the spatially homogeneous linear Boltzmann equation from a semigroup viewpoint. Our analysis is performed in some (weighted) $L^{1}$-spaces. We deal with both the cases of hard and soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Bertrand Lods , Mustapha Mokhtar-Kharroubi

We consider a discrete particle system of two species coupled through nonlocal interactions driven by the one-dimensional Newtonian potential, with repulsive self-interaction and attractive cross-interaction. After providing a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Marco Di Francesco , Antonio Esposito , Markus Schmidtchen

We consider a non-relativistic quantum particle in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2$ or $d = 3$, interacting with singular zero-range potentials concentrated on a large collection of points. We analyze the homogenization regime where the intensities of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Domenico Cafiero , Michele Correggi , Davide Fermi

The question of classicality is addressed in relation with the shape of the nuclear skeleton of molecular systems. As the most natural environment, the electrons of the molecule are considered as continuously monitoring agents for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Edit Matyus , Patrick Cassam-Chenai

Because of the potentially large number of important applications of nonlinear optics, researchers have expended a great deal of effort to optimize the second-order molecular nonlinear-optical response, called the hyperpolarizability. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 David S. Watkins , Mark G. Kuzyk

We study stochastic particle systems made up of heterogeneous units. We introduce a general framework suitable to analytically study this kind of systems and apply it to two particular models of interest in economy and epidemiology. We show…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-06 Luis F. Lafuerza , Raul Toral

We explore the emergence of many-body physics from quantum mechanics via spontaneous symmetry breaking. To this end, we study potentials which are functionals on the space of Hamiltonians enjoying an unstable critical point corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-26 Michael Freedman , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini

We consider the (numerically motivated) Nanbu stochastic particle system associated to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for true hard potentials. We establish a rate of propagation of chaos of the particle system to the unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Nicolas Fournier , Stéphane Mischler