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A kinetic theory of relativistic gases in a two-dimensional space is developed in order to obtain the equilibrium distribution function and the expressions for the fields of energy per particle, pressure, entropy per particle and heat…

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For the Fermi gas filling the space inside a cubic cavity of a fixed volume, at arbitrary temperatures and number of particles, the thermodynamic characteristics are calculated, namely: entropy, thermodynamic potential, energy, pressure,…

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We investigate the electromagnetic response of a relativistic Fermi gas at finite temperatures. Our theoretical results are first-order in the fine-structure constant. The electromagnetic permittivity and permeability are introduced via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 E. Reyes-Gómez , L. E. Oliveira , C. A. A. de Carvalho

Multicomponent relativistic fluids have been studied for decades. However, simulating the dynamics of the particles and fluids in such a mixture has been a challenge due to the fact that such simulations are computationally expensive in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-04 Atul Kedia , Nishanth Sasankan , Grant J. Mathews , Motohiko Kusakabe

We perform microscopic simulations of the thermal relaxation of warm neutral plasmas of astrophysical importance. Using Molecular Dynamics we study the thermal relaxation of a hot neutral fluid of finite-size neutron-rich ions kept in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 David Barba-González , Conrado Albertus , M. Ángeles Pérez-García

This article extends the single-fluid relativistic irreversible thermodynamics theory of {\it M{\"u}ller}, {\it Israel} and {\it Stewart} (hereafter the {MIS} theory) to a multi-fluid system with inherent species interactions. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-23 Bob Osano

The model quantum system of fermions in a one dimensional harmonic oscillator potential is investigated by a molecular dynamics method at constant temperature. Although in quantum mechanics the equipartition theorem cannot be used like in…

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By computer numerical simulation of heating of a dust conducting particle in homogeneous plasma it was shown that depending on initial temperature of a particle both heating and cooling were possible with formation of two different…

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Thermal fluctuations affect the dynamics of systems near critical points, the evolution of the early universe, and two-particle correlations in heavy-ion collisions. For the latter, numerical simulations of nearly-ideal, relativistic fluids…

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Established heat engines in quantum regime can be modeled with various quantum systems as working substances. For example, in the non-relativistic case, we can model the heat engine using infinite potential well as a working substance to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Goutam Paul

A generalized entropy arising in the context of superstatistics is obtained for an ideal gas. The curvature scalar associated to the thermodynamic space generated by this modified entropy is calculated using two formalisms of the geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. L. López , O. Obregón , J. Torres-Arenas

We consider a class of mechanical particle systems interacting with thermostats. Particles move freely between collisions with disk-shaped thermostats arranged periodically on the torus. Upon collision, an energy exchange occurs, in which a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Konstantin Khanin , Tatiana Yarmola

Thermal convection is observed in molecular dynamic simulation of a fluidized granular system of nearly elastic hard disks moving under gravity, inside a rectangular box. Boundaries introduce no shearing or time dependence, but the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosa Ramirez , Dino Risso , Patricio Cordero

We derive a Lorentz invariant distribution of velocities for a relativistic gas. Our derivation is based on three pillars: the special theory of relativity, the central limit theorem and the Lobachevskyian structure of the velocity space of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-04 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Ivano D. Soares

Quantum thermodynamics with open systems is often based on the quantum optical weak-coupling master equation or on operational repeated interaction models, whereas early works on thermalisation and on decoherence theory were mostly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Michael Gaida , Giulio Gasbarri , Stefan Nimmrichter

We consider a model of a dynamical Lorentz gaz : a single particle is moving in $\mathbb{R}^d$ through an array of fixed an soft scatterers each possessing an internal degree of freedom coupled to the particle. Assuming the initial velocity…

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The non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional gas of inelastic hard spheres is presented. The dynamics of the particles includes an effective mechanism to transfer the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar , V. Buzón

The microphysical, kinetic properties of astrophysical plasmas near accreting compact objects are still poorly understood. For instance, in modern general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the relation between the temperature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Claudio Meringolo , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

We generalize the concept of conserving, Phi-derivable, approximations to relativistic field theories. Treating the interaction field as a dynamical degree of freedom, we derive the thermodynamic potential in terms of fully dressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Benoit Vanderheyden , Gordon Baym

The earliest molecular dynamics simulations relied on solving the Newtonian or equivalently the Hamiltonian equations of motion for a system. While pedagogically very important as the total energy is preserved in these simulations, they…

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