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The Dirac field, spin 1/2 particles, is investigated in phase space. The Dirac propagator is defined. The Thermo Field Dynamics (TFD) formalism is used to introduce finite temperature. The energy-momentum tensor is calculated at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 R. G. G. Amorim , S. C. Ulhoa , J. S da Cruz Filho , A. F. Santos , F. C. Khanna

We present equations of motion for charged particles using balanced equations, and without introducing explicitly divergent quantities. This derivation contains as particular cases some well known equations of motion, as the Lorentz-Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-08 Emanuel Gallo , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

The particles of a classical relativistic gas are supposed to move under the influence of a quasilinear (in the particle four-momenta), self-interacting force inbetween elastic, binary collisions. This force which is completely fixed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Winfried Zimdahl , Alexander B. Balakin

In the first part (Sections 1 and 2) of this paper --starting from the Pauli current, in the ordinary tensorial language-- we obtain the decomposition of the non-relativistic field velocity into two orthogonal parts: (i) the "classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-04 Erasmo Recami , Giovanni Salesi

This paper discusses the possibility of applying the velocity averaging theorems in [F. Golse, P.-L. Lions, B. Perthame, R. Sentis: J. Funct. Anal. 76(1):110--125, 1988] to the Wigner equation governing the quantum evolution of the Wigner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 François Golse , Jakob Möller

We derive self-consistent constraint conditions for collision terms in quantum kinetic theory using the Wigner function formalism. We present specific solutions for these collision terms that align with the constraints. we develop quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-24 Shi-Yuan Wu , Jian-Hua Gao

Wigner's particle classification provides for "continuous spin" representations of the Poincar\'e group, corresponding to a class of (as yet unobserved) massless particles. Rather than building their induced realizations by use of "Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

When two active Brownian particles collide, they slide along each other until they can continue their free motion. For persistence lengths much larger than the particle diameter, the directors do not change, but the collision can be modeled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-19 Rodrigo Soto , Martin Pinto , Ricardo Brito

Rotating photon gas exhibits a chirality separation along the angular velocity which is manifested through a generation of helicity and zilch currents. In this paper we study this system using the corresponding Wigner function and construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Xu-Guang Huang , Pavel Mitkin , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Enrico Speranza

A Lagrangian formalism is used to study the motion of a spinning massive particle in Friedmann--Robertson--Walker and G\"odel spacetimes, as well as in a general Schwarzschild-like spacetime and in static spherically symmetric conformally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicolas Zalaquett , Sergio A. Hojman , Felipe A. Asenjo

Difference Kinetic Equations are derived quantum mechanically in a plane wavelets representation with account of two-particle correlations. It is shown that the set of plane wavelet orthonormal functions is complete. The set of ket vectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Alexandr A. Klyukanov

The Dirac monopole string is specified for de Sitter cosmological model. Dirac equation for spin 1/2 particle in presence of this monopole has been examined on the background of de Sitter space-time in static coordinates. Instead of spinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-15 V. M. Red'kov , E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko

We apply the Wigner-function approach and chiral kinetic theory to investigate the angular momentum and polarization of chiral fluids composed of Weyl fermions with background electric/magnetic fields and vorticity. It is found that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Di-Lun Yang

We propose a conservative two-dimensional particle model in which particles carry a continuous and classical spin. The model includes standard ferromagnetic interactions between spins of two different particles, and a nonstandard coupling…

We consider the motion of a point particle with spin in a stationary spacetime. We define, following Witzany (2019) and later Ramond (2022), a twelve dimensional Hamiltonian dynamical system whose orbits coincide with the solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Francisco M. Blanco , Éanna É. Flanagan

The Dirac equation for massive free electrically neutral spin 1/2 particles in a gravitation field is considered. The secondary quantization procedure is applied to it and the Hilbert space of multiparticle quantum states is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

The dielectric permeability tensor for spin polarized plasmas is derived in terms of the spin-1/2 quantum kinetic model in six-dimensional phase space. Expressions for the distribution function and spin distribution function are derived in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Pavel A. Andreev

The linear Boltzmann equation for elastic and/or inelastic scattering is applied to derive the distribution function of a spatially homogeneous system of charged particles spreading in a host medium of two-level atoms and subjected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone

A complete set of generalized spin-squeezing inequalities is derived for an ensemble of particles with an arbitrary spin. Our conditions are formulated with the first and second moments of the collective angular momentum coordinates. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Giuseppe Vitagliano , Iagoba Apellaniz , Inigo L. Egusquiza , Geza Toth

Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierre-Henri Chavanis