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The kinetic approach to the formation of the filaments in the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe is considered within the Vlasov formalism. The structures arise due to the self-consistent dynamics, along with the repulsive term…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 V. G. Gurzadyan , N. N. Fimin , V. M. Chechetkin

Perhaps the most basic question we can ask about cosmological correlations is how their strength changes as we smoothly vary kinematic parameters. The answer is encoded in differential equations that govern this evolution in kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Aaron Hillman , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

A closed set of equations for the evolution of linear perturbations of homogeneous, isotropic cosmological models can be obtained in various ways. The simplest approach is to assume a macroscopic equation of state, e.g.\ that of a perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Anton K. Rebhan , Dominik J. Schwarz

We present results for the cosmic non-linear density-fluctuation power spectrum based on the analytical formalism developed in [1] which allows us to study cosmic structure formation based on Newtonian particle dynamics in phase-space. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tristan Daus , Elena Kozlikin

The currently standard theory of cosmic structure formation posits that the present-day clumpy appearance of the universe developed through gravitational amplification of the matter density fluctuations that are generated in the very early…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Yoshida

In a mean-field approximation within Kinetic Field Theory, it is possible to derive an accurate analytic expression for the power spectrum of present-day non-linear cosmic density fluctuations. It depends on the theory of gravity and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Alexander Oestreicher , Harshda Saxena , Niklas Reinhardt , Elena Kozlikin , Johannes Dombrowski , Matthias Bartelmann

We use kinetic theory in order to study the role of quantum fluctuations in the isotropization of the pressure tensor in a system subject to fast longitudinal expansion, such as the matter produced in the early stages of a heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Francois Gelis

We present an investigation into diffusion models for molecular generation, with the aim of better understanding how their predictions compare to the results of physics-based calculations. The investigation into these models is driven by…

Despite the wide existence of vesicles in living cells as well as their important applications like drug-delivery, the underlying mechanism of vesicle fusion/fission remains under debate. Here, we develop a constrained self-consistent field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-22 Luofu Liu , Chao Duan , Rui Wang

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

Using linear kinetic plasma theory the relation between electron density and magnetic field fluctuations for low-frequency plasma waves for Maxwellian background distribution functions of arbitrary temperatures in an uniform magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Schlickeiser , I. Lerche

Building upon the recent pioneering work by Mazenko and by Das and Mazenko, we develop a microscopic, non-equilibrium, statistical field theory for initially correlated canonical ensembles of classical microscopic particles obeying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-08 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Daniel Berg , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Celia Viermann

Modelling sediment transport is still a challenging problem and is of major importance for the study of particulate geophysical flows. In this work, the modelling of sediment transport in the collisional regime is investigated with a focus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-15 Rémi Chassagne , Julien Chauchat , Cyrille Bonamy

One of the fundamental challenges for quantum cosmology is to explain the emergence of our macroscopic Universe from physics at the Planck scale. In the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity, such a macroscopic universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-12 Steffen Gielen

In this paper, we analyze the effects of expansion on large scale structure formation in our Universe. We do that by incorporating a cosmological constant term in the gravitational partition function. This gravitational partition function…

General Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Mir Hameeda , Behnam Pourhassan , Syed Masood , Mir Faizal , Li-Gang Wang , Shohaib Abass

An attractive and simple hypothesis for the formation of large-scale structure is that it developed by gravitational instability from primordial fluctuations with an initially Gaussian probability distribution. Non-linear gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Luiza Lokas , Roman Juszkiewicz , David Weinberg , Francois Bouchet

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

The density functional theory (DFT) is a remarkably successful theory of electronic structure of matter. At the foundation of this theory lies the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation. In this paper, we describe the long-time behaviour of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Fabio Pusateri , Israel Michael Sigal

The current understanding of structure formation in the early universe is mainly built on a magnification of quantum fluctuations in an initial vacuum state during an early phase of accelerated universe expansion. One usually describes this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-06 Martin Bojowald , Aureliano Skirzewski

We complete the kinetic theory of two-dimensional (2D) point vortices initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of 2D point vortices submitted to a small external stochastic perturbation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Pierre-Henri Chavanis