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This paper reviews results on the scalar Boltzmann equation for a single-component polyatomic gas with continuous internal energy. For the space homogeneous problem, $L^1$-theory is established, for solutions with initial strictly positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Ricardo Alonso , Milana Colic

The spectral gap occupies a role of central importance in many open problems in physics. We present an approach for evaluating the spectral gap of a Hamiltonian from a simple ratio of two expectation values, both of which are evaluated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Gerard McCaul , Denys I. Bondar

Inspired by the quantum computing algorithms for Linear Algebra problems [HHL,TaShma] we study how the simulation on a classical computer of this type of "Phase Estimation algorithms" performs when we apply it to solve the Eigen-Problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Michael Ben-Or , Lior Eldar

We locate gaps in the spectrum of a Hamiltonian on a periodic cuboidal (and generally hyperrectangular) lattice graph with $\delta$ couplings in the vertices. We formulate sufficient conditions under which the number of gaps is finite. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Ondřej Turek

We consider a periodic Schr\"odinger operator in two dimensions perturbed by a weak magnetic field whose intensity slowly varies around a positive mean. We show in great generality that the bottom of the spectrum of the corresponding…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Horia D. Cornean , Bernard Helffer , Radu Purice

Many common methods for data analysis rely on linear algebra. We provide new results connecting data analysis error to numerical accuracy, which leads to the first meaningful stopping criterion for two way spectral partitioning. More…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-02-03 James P. Fairbanks , Geoffrey D. Sanders , David A. Bader

The linearized Boltzmann collision operator is fundamental in many studies of the Boltzmann equation and its main properties are of substantial importance. The decomposition into a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Niclas Bernhoff

In this paper the nonlinear multi-species Boltzmann equation with random uncertainty coming from the initial data and collision kernel is studied. Well-posedness and long-time behavior - exponential decay to the global equilibrium - of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Esther S. Daus , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

Inconsistencies are pointed out in the usual quantum versions of the classical linear Boltzmann equation constructed for a quantized test particle in a gas. These are related to the incorrect formal treatment of momentum decoherence. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lajos Diosi

Quench spectroscopy has emerged as a novel and powerful technique for probing the energy spectrum of various quantum phases for quantum systems from out-of-equilibrium dynamics. While its efficacy has been demonstrated in the homogeneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-25 Jiachen Yu , Yuanzhe Hu , Wenhan Chen , Jianing Yang , Xuzong Chen , Hepeng Yao

In this paper, we develop and implement an efficient asymptotic-preserving (AP) scheme to solve the gas mixture of Boltzmann equations under the disparate mass scaling relevant to the so-called "epochal relaxation" phenomenon. The disparity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Zhen Hao , Ning Jiang , Liu Liu

We study an abstract family of asymptotically degenerating variational problems. Those are natural generalisations of families of problems emerging upon application of a rescaled Floquet-Bloch-Gelfand transform to resolvent problems for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Shane Cooper , Ilia Kamotski , Valery P. Smyshlyaev

The correlation spectrum of fully developed one-dimensional mappings are studied near and at a weakly intermittent situation. Using a suitable infinite matrix representation, the eigenvalue equation of the Frobenius-Perron operator is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Bene , Z. Kaufmann , H. Lustfeld

This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

Computational modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions constitute a fundamental cornerstone for advancing aerospace engineering endeavors. This paper addresses the notion and implementation of the immersed boundary method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Longqing Ge , Qingdong Cai , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

We establish a sharp lower bound on the spectral gap of the biased adjacent-transposition Markov chain on the symmetric group. As a consequence, we resolve a longstanding conjecture of Fill, proving that among all regular probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Gary R. W. Greaves , Haoran Zhu

The model problem of a plane angle for a second-order elliptic system subject to Dirichlet, mixed, and Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. For each boundary condition, the existence of solutions of the form $r^\lambda v$ is reduced to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Michael Tsopanopoulos

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 Cauchy theory for a multi-species mixture, where the different species can have different masses, in a perturbative setting on the $3$-dimensional torus. The ultimate aim of this work is to obtain existence, uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant , Esther Daus

The aim of this paper is to extend to the spaces L^2(R^d , (1+|v|)^2k dv) the spectral study led in L^2(R^d , exp(|v|^2/2)dv) by R. Ellis and M. Pinsky on the space inhomogeneous linearized Boltzmann operator for hard spheres. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Pierre Gervais