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The paper considers a linear system of Boltzmann transport equations modelling the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons. The system is coupled because of the collision term (an integral operator). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Jouko Tervo , Petri Kokkonen

In particle-laden turbulence, the Fourier Lagrangian spectrum of each phase is regularly computed, and analytically derived response functions relate the Lagrangian spectrum of the fluid- and the particle phase. However, due to the periodic…

The computation of transport coefficients, even in linear response, is a major challenge for theoretical methods that rely on analytic continuation of correlations functions obtained numerically in Matsubara space. While maximum entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 A. Reymbaut , A. -M. Gagnon , D. Bergeron , A. -M. S. Tremblay

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

We derive radiative transport equations for solutions of a Schr\"odinger equation in a periodic structure with small random inhomogeneities. We use systematically the Wigner transform and the Bloch wave expansion. The streaming part of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guillaume Bal , Albert Fannjiang , George Papanicolaou , Leonid Ryzhik

We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jianfeng Lu , Christian B. Mendl

In this paper, we present a critical collection of essential mathematical tools and techniques for the analysis of Boltzmann-type kinetic equations, which in recent years have established themselves as a flexible and powerful paradigm to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Nadia Loy , Andrea Tosin

The Hall scattering factor is formulated using Rode's iterative approach to solving the Boltzmann transport equation in such a way that it may be easily computed within the scope of ab-inito calculations. Using this method in conjunction…

Efficient and accurate numerical approximation of the full Boltzmann equation has been a longstanding challenging problem in kinetic theory. This is mainly due to the high dimensionality of the problem and the complicated collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Jingwei Hu , Yubo Wang

Modern methods for sampling rugged landscapes in state space mainly rely on knowledge of the relative probabilities of microstates, which is given by the Boltzmann factor for equilibrium systems. In principle, trajectory reweighting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Patrick B. Warren , Rosalind J. Allen

We present a two-way coupled fluid-structure interaction scheme for rigid bodies using a two-population lattice Boltzmann formulation for compressible flows. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation of the discrete Boltzmann equation on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-03 Abhimanyu Bhadauria , Benedikt Dorschner , Ilya Karlin

The nonlinear optical response of materials under high-intensity electromagnetic fields is key to advancing THz optical technologies. This study introduces a theoretical approach to estimate the nonlinear refractive index coefficient n2 of…

We present trainsum, a versatile Python package for doing computations with multidimensional quantics tensor trains: https://github.com/fh-igd-iet/trainsum. Using the Array API standard together with opt_einsum, trainsum allows the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Paul Haubenwallner , Matthias Heller

We consider the tight-binding approximation for the description of energy bands of graphene, together with the standard Boltzmann's transport equation and constant relaxation time, an expression for the conductivity was obtained. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 S. S. Abukari , S. Y. Mensah , R. Musah , N. G. Mensah , K. A. Dompreh

The paper considers existence results of solution for a linear coupled system of Boltzmann transport equations and related inverse problem. The system models the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Jouko Tervo

This paper describes an angular adaptivity algorithm for Boltzmann transport applications which for the first time shows evidence of $\mathcal{O}(n)$ scaling in both runtime and memory usage, where $n$ is the number of adapted angles. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 S. Dargaville , A. G. Buchan , R. P. Smedley-Stevenson , P. N Smith , C. C. Pain

We present a new method to introduce phase-space fluctuations in transport theories, corresponding to a full implementation of the Boltzmann-Langevin equation for fermionic systems. It is based on the procedure originally developed by Bauer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Rizzo , Ph. Chomaz , M. Colonna

Semiconductor superlattices are interesting for two distinct reasons: the possibility to design their structure (band-width(s),doping, etc.) gives access to a large parameter space where different physical phenomena can be explored.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 A. P. Jauho , A. Wacker , A. A. Ignatov

We propose a Hermite spectral method for the inelastic Boltzmann equation, which makes two-dimensional periodic problem computation affordable by the hardware nowadays. The new algorithm is based on a Hermite expansion, where the expansion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Ruo Li , Yixiao Lu , Yanli Wang

The alloys with 8/18/24 valence electron count (VEC) are promising candidates for efficient energy conversion and refrigeration applications at low as well as high temperatures. The full potential linearized augmented plane wave method as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-17 Mukesh K. Choudhary , H. Fjellvåg , P. Ravindran