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Boltzmann's equation provides a microscopic model for the evolution of dilute classical gases. A fundamental problem in mathematical physics is to rigorously derive Boltzmann's equation starting from Newton's laws. In the 1970s, Oscar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Ryan Denlinger

In this paper we continue the study of the derivation of different types of kinetic equations which arise from scaling limits of interacting particle systems. We began this study in \cite{NVW}. More precisely, we consider the derivation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez , Raphael Winter

We study the effect of long range particle exchange in bosonic arrangements. We show that by combining the solution of the Heisenberg equations of motion with matrix product state representation it is possible to investigate the dynamics as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Jose Reslen , Sougato Bose

In this study we derive a single-particle equation of motion, from first-principles, starting out with a microscopic description of a tracer particle in a one-dimensional many-particle system with a general two-body interaction potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ludvig Lizana , Tobias Ambjornsson , Alessandro Taloni , Eli Barkai , Michael A. Lomholt

We provide a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation as the mesoscopic limit of systems of hard spheres, or Newtonian particles interacting via a short-range potential, as the number of particles $N$ goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Benjamin Texier

The linearized Boltzmann equation is considered to describe small spatial perturbations of the homogeneous cooling state. The corresponding macroscopic balance equations for the density, temperature, and flow velocity are derived from it as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We treat a relativistically moving particle interacting with a quantum field from an open system viewpoint of quantum field theory by the method of influence functionals or closed-time-path coarse-grained effective actions. The particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

We use a careful treatment of time-dependent wave-mechanical scattering to determine the conditions under which a dilute, non-degenerate quantum gas can obey a Boltzmann equation. If the gas possesses weak long-range coherence, such as may…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-08 L. Rico-Pérez , J. R. Anglin

The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

We develop an effective theory for biased tracers formulated at the level of the Boltzmann equation, providing a unified description of density and velocity bias. We introduce a general effective collision term in the tracer Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Tomo Takahashi , Sora Yamashita

We study the abundance of a particle species in a thermalized plasma by introducing a quantum kinetic description based on the non-equilibrium effective action. A stochastic interpretation of quantum kinetics in terms of a Langevin equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , K. Davey , C. M. Ho

This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mitia Duerinckx , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

Collective coherent light scattering by polarizable particles creates surprisingly strong, long range inter-particle forces originating from interference of the light scattered by different particles. While for monochromatic laser beams…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 Daniela Holzmann , Helmut Ritsch

The paper considers a coupled system of linear Boltzmann transport equations (BTE), and its Continuous Slowing Down Approximation (CSDA). This system can be used to model the relevant transport of particles used e.g. in dose calculation in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-06 J. Tervo , P. Kokkonen , M. Frank , M. Herty

Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

The kinetic theory description of a low density gas of hard spheres or disks, confined between two parallel plates separated a distance smaller than twice the diameter of the particles, is addressed starting from the Liouville equation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We consider a one-dimensional gas of hard point particles in a finite box that are in thermal equilibrium and evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics. Tagged particle correlation functions of the middle particle are studied. For the special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anjan Roy , Onuttom Narayan , Abhishek Dhar , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We study the Boltzmann equation for a space-homogeneous gas of inelastic hard spheres, with a diffusive term representing a random background forcing. Under the assumption that the initial datum is a nonnegative $L^2$ function, with bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Irene M. Gamba , Vladislav Panferov , Cedric Villani

The lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE), rooted in kinetic theory, provides a powerful framework for capturing complex flow behaviour by describing the evolution of single-particle distribution functions (PDFs). Despite its success, solving…

We review the quantum version of the linear Boltzmann equation, which describes in a non-perturbative fashion, by means of scattering theory, how the quantum motion of a single test particle is affected by collisions with an ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger