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In this work, the use of the Boltzmann collision operator for dissipative quantum transport is analyzed. Its mathematical role on the description of the time-evolution of the density matrix during a collision can be understood as processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Z. Zhan , E. Colomes , X. Oriols

Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Jennifer Coulter , Bogdan Rajkov , Michele Simoncelli

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…

The Boltzmann equation for inelastic and rough hard spheres is considered as a model of a dilute granular gas. In this model, the collisions are characterized by constant coefficients of normal and tangential restitution and hence the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-03 Gilberto M. Kremer , Andrés Santos , Vicente Garzó

Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom

In this work we consider the classical non-linear Boltzmann equation, where the unknown is the distribution function $f$, which depends on the time $t$, the vector $\mathbf{x}$ (the position of a molecule) and its velocity $\mathbf{\xi}$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Armando Majorana

Intrinsic fluctuations around the solution of the lattice Boltzmann equation are described or modeled by addition of a white Gaussian noise source. For stationary states a fluctuation-dissipation theorem relates the variance of the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 J. W. Dufty , M. H. Ernst

This manuscript focus on an extensive survey with new techniques on the problem of solving the Boltzmann flow by bringing a unified approach to the Cauchy problem to homogeneous kinetic equations with Boltzmann-like collision operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba

Using the semiclassical quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), we numerically calculate the DC transport properties of bilayer graphene near charge neutrality. We find, in contrast to prior discussions, that phonon scattering is crucial even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

The direct simulation of the dynamics of second sound in graphitic materials remains a challenging task due to lack of methodology for solving the phonon Boltzmann equation in such a stiff hydrodynamic regime. In this work, we aim to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Xiao-Ping Luo , Yang-Yu Guo , Mo-Ran Wang , Hong-Liang Yi

We have combined the Boltzmann transport equation with an {\it ab initio} approach to compute the thermoelectric coefficients of semiconductors. Electron-phonon, ionized impurity, and electron-plasmon scattering rates have been taken into…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-26 Z. Wang , S. Wang , S. Obukhov , N. Vast , J. Sjakste , V. Tyuterev , N. Mingo

We consider stochastic differential systems driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson point measure where the intensity measure of jumps depends on the solution. This behavior is natural for several physical models (such as Boltzmann…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Vlad Bally , Dan Goreac , Victor Rabiet

The transport of excess electrons in liquid argon driven out of equilibrium by an applied electric field is revisited using a multi-term solution of Boltzmann's equation together with ab initio liquid phase cross-sections calculated using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 G. J. Boyle , R. P. McEachran , D. G. Cocks , R. D. White

We introduce a fast Fourier spectral method for the multi-species Boltzmann collision operator. The method retains the riveting properties of the single-species fast spectral method (Gamba et al. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 39 pp. B658--B674…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Shashank Jaiswal , Alina A. Alexeenko , Jingwei Hu

For low density gases the validity of the Boltzmann transport equation is well established. The central object is the one-particle distribution function, $f$, which in the Boltzmann-Grad limit satisfies the Boltzmann equation. Grad and,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Herbert Spohn

We propose a new formulation of the fluctuating lattice Boltzmann equation that is consistent with both equilibrium statististical mechanics and fluctuating hydrodynamics. The formalism is based on a generalized lattice-gas model, with each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Burkhard Duenweg , Ulf D. Schiller , Anthony J. C. Ladd

The Boltzmann equation is a powerful theoretical tool for modeling the collective dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to external perturbations. Analysis of the equation gives access to linear response properties including…

We calculate the resonance fluorescence signal of a two-level system coupled to a quantized phonon mode. By treating the phonons in the independent boson model and not performing any approximations in their description, we also have access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Thilo Hahn , Daniel Groll , Hubert J. Krenner , Tilmann Kuhn , Paweł Machnikowski , Daniel Wigger

The stochastic differential and integral equations describing the system of particles weakly interacting among themselves which are absorbed and scattered by particles of a medium are considered. The time-dependent transport equation with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Igor Kharin