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We study a physical system of $N$ interacting particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq1$, subject to pair repulsion and confined by an external field. We establish a large deviations principle for their empirical distribution as $N$ tends to…

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Polarizable particle systems, including charged colloids, polarizable ions, biomolecular assemblies, and soft nanomaterials, can exhibit contact electrostatic interactions that depart strongly from Coulomb behavior when dielectric mismatch…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-13 Yanyu Duan , Zecheng Gan

In singlet two-electron systems the natural occupation numbers of the one-particle reduced density matrix are given as squares of the natural amplitudes which are defined as the expansion coefficients of the two-electron wave function in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Klaas J. H. Giesbertz , Robert van Leeuwen

The Coulomb deexcitation of $(\pi p)$ atom in collisions with the hydrogen atom has been studied in the fully quantum mechanical close-coupling approach for the first time. The total Coulomb deexcitation cross-sections of $nl\to n'l'$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 V. N. Pomerantsev , V. P. Popov

We present solutions to the classical Liouville equation for ergodic and completely integrable systems - systems that are known to attain equilibrium. Ergodic systems are known to thermal equilibrate with a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-26 Jose A. Magpantay , Cilicia Uzziel M. Perez

The theoretical study of ultracold few-body systems is often done using an idealized 1D model with zero range interactions. Here we study these systems using a more realistic 3D model with finite range interactions. We place…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-17 M. Wallenius , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

We present a probabilistic proof of the mean-field limit and propagation of chaos of a classical N-particle system in two dimensions with Coulomb interaction force of the form $f^N(q)=\pm\frac{q}{|q|^2}$ and $N$-dependent cut-off at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Manuela Feistl-Held , Peter Pickl

Euler's three-body problem is the problem of solving for the motion of a particle moving in a Newtonian potential generated by two point sources fixed in space. This system is integrable in the Liouville sense. We consider the Euler problem…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-08 Takahisa Igata

In this paper, the third in the series, we continue our study of combinatorics in chaotic Newtonian dynamics. We study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity assuming finite-sized particles, and we focus on interactions that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Nathan W. C. Leigh , Aaron M. Geller , Michael M. Shara , James Garland , Harper Clees-Baron , Alejandro Ahmed

We study in detail the form of the orbits in integrable generalized H\'enon-Heiles systems with Hamiltonians of the form $H = \frac{1}{2}(\dot{x}^2 + Ax^2 + \dot{y}^2 + By^2) + \epsilon(xy^2 + \alpha x^3).$ In particular, we focus on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-15 Athanasios C. Tzemos , George Contopoulos , Foivos Zanias

In the context of Born-Infeld electrodynamics, the electromagnetic fields interact with each other via their non-linear couplings. A calculation will be performed where an incoming electromagnetic plane wave scatters off a Coulomb Field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-21 Daniel Tennant

We consider a cosmological model in which our Universe is a spherically symmetric bubble wall in 5-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. We argue that the bubble on which we live will undergo collisions with other similar bubbles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Warren B. Perkins

Two-body scattering is studied by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in momentum space without angular-momentum decomposition for a local spin dependent short range interaction plus Coulomb. The screening and renormalization approach…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rodriguez-Gallardo , A. Deltuva , E. Cravo , R. Crespo , A. C. Fonseca

Based on the concept of material event as an elementary material source that is concentrated on metric sphere of zero radius --- light-cone of Minkowski space-time, we deduce the analog of Coulomb's law for hyperbolic space-time field…

General Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Dmitry Pavlov , Sergey Kokarev

We show that the Lyapunov exponent (LE) of periodic orbits with Lebesgue measure zero from the Gauss map can be used to determine the main qualitative behavior of the LE of a Hamiltonian system. The Hamiltonian system is a one-dimensional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-04 Cesar Manchein , Marcus W. Beims

The time evolution of the continuous measure symmetry for the system built of the three bodies interacting via the potential U(r)~1/r is reported. Gravitational and electrostatic interactions between the point bodies were addressed. In the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Mark Frenkel , Shraga Shoval , Edward Bormashenko

An algebraic approach is formulated in the harmonic approximation to describe a dynamics of two-fermion systems, confined in three-dimensional axially symmetric parabolic potential, in an external magnetic field. The fermion interaction is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 M. Cerkaski , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Universal properties of the Coulomb interaction energy apply to all many-electron systems. Bounds on the exchange-correlation energy, inparticular, are important for the construction of improved density functionals. Here we investigate one…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mariana M. Odashima , K. Capelle

A field theoretic representation of the classical partition function is derived for a system composed of a mixture of anisotropic and isotropic mobile charges that interact {\sl via} long range Coulomb and short range nematic interactions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 Rudolf Podgornik

By introducing a new coordinate system, we prove that there are abundant new periodic orbits near relative equilibrium solutions of the N-body problem. We consider only Lagrange relative equilibrium of the three-body problem and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Xiang Yu