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We consider the formation of photon spectrum at the photosphere of ultrarelativistically expanding outflow. We use the Fokker-Planck approximation to the Boltzmann equation, and obtain the generalized Kompaneets equation which takes into…

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Typically, aggregation-diffusion is modeled by parabolic equations that combine linear or nonlinear diffusion with a Fokker-Planck convection term. Under very general suitable assumptions, we prove that radial solutions of the evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Jose A. Carrillo , David Gómez-Castro , Juan Luis Vázquez

The nine-component positive vector optical tomographic probability portrait of quantum state of spin-1 particles containing full spatial and spin information about the state without redundancy is constructed. Also the suggested approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Ya. A. Korennoy , V. I. Man'ko

We have treated numerous illustrative examples of spin relaxation problems using Wigner's phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics of particles and spins. The merit of the phase space formalism as applied to spin relaxation problems is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-07 Yu. P. Kalmykov , W. T. Coffey , S. V. Titov

We present the general solutions for the classical and quantum dynamics of the anharmonic oscillator coupled to a purely diffusive environment. In both cases, these solutions are obtained by the application of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-07 J. G. Peixoto de Faria

A generalized Fokker-Planck equation is derived to describe particle kinetics in specific situations when the probability transition function (PTF) has a long tail in momentum space. The equation is valid for an arbitrary value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. A. Dubinova , S. A. Trigger

Using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, we derive a four-component Wigner equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically, electrons) including the Zeeman effect and the spin-orbit coupling. This Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jerome Hurst , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

The recently proposed Wigner function for a particle in an infinite lattice [NJP 14, 103009 (2012)] is extended here to include an internal degree of freedom, as spin. The formalism is developed to account for dynamical processes, with or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 M. Hinarejos , M. C. Bañuls , A. Pérez

Particle acceleration by turbulence plays a role in many astrophysical environments. The non- linear evolution of the underlying cosmic-ray spectrum is complex and can be described by a Fokker-Planck equation, which in general has to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julius Donnert , Gianfranco Brunetti

We consider the problem of the driven harmonic oscillator in the probability representation of quantum mechanics, where the oscillator states are described by fair nonnegative probability distributions of position measured in rotated and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 Dmitry B. Lemeshevskiy , Vladimir I. Man'ko

Aspects of the QCD parton densities are briefly reviewed, drawing some parallels to the density matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, exemplified by Wigner functions. We elaborate on the solution of their evolution equations using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Cafarella , Claudio Coriano' , Marco Guzzi

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

This paper concerns the proof of the exponential rate of convergence of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation, with a drift term not being the gradient of a potential function and endowed by Robin type boundary conditions. This kind of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-24 J-A Carrillo , Simona Mancini , M. -B Tran

Nicolai's theorem suggests a simple stochastic interpetation for supersymmetric Euclidean quantum theories, without requiring any inner product to be defined on the space of states. In order to apply this idea to supergravity, we first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Hugh Luckock , Chris Oliwa

In a recent paper, we have introduced a new model to describe front propagation in bushfires. This model describes temperature diffusion in view of an ignition process induced by an interaction kernel, the effect of the environmental wind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We present a new quasi-probability distribution function for ensembles of spin-half particles or qubits that has many properties in common with Wigner's original function for systems of continuous variables. We show that this function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Derek Harland , M. J. Everitt , Kae Nemoto , T. Tilma , T. P. Spiller

The stochastic differential equations for a model of dissipative particle dynamics with both total energy and total momentum conservation in the particle-particle interactions are presented. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Bonet Avalos , A. D. Mackie

We modify the path integral representation of exciton transport in open quantum systems such that an exact description of the quantum fluctuations around the classical evolution of the system is possible. As a consequence, the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Anton Ivanov , Heinz-Peter Breuer

The quantum state for the spatial degrees of freedom of photons propagating through turbulence is analyzed. The turbulent medium is modeled by a single phase screen for weak scintillation conditions and by multiple phase screens for general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Filippus S. Roux

The density of states for a finite or an infinite cluster of scatterers in the case of both electrons and photons can be represented in a general form as the sum over all Krein-Friedel contributions of individual scatterers and a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexander Moroz