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We discuss the strong interaction regime of the nonlinear Landau-Zener problem coming up at coherent photo- and magneto-association of ultracold atoms. We apply a variational approach to an exact third-order nonlinear differential equation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-09-04 R. Sokhoyan , H. Azizbekyan , C. Leroy , A. Ishkhanyan

To address the problem of Landau damping in kinetic turbulence, the forcing of the linearized Vlasov equation by a stationary random source is considered. It is found that the time-asymptotic density response is dominated by resonant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. G. Plunk

The rate of linear collisionless damping (Landau damping) in a classical electron gas confined to a heated ionized thin film is calculated. The general expression for the imaginary part of the dielectric tensor in terms of the parameters of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. F. Zaretsky , Ph. A. Korneev , S. V. Popruzhenko , W. Becker

We review and complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of spatially homogeneous systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects into account. The evolution of the system as a whole is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study the derivation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation from the mean-field limit of a conservative $N$-particle system, obtained by passing to the grazing limit on Kac's walk in his program for the Boltzmann equation. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xuanrui Feng , Zhenfu Wang

Nonstationary and nonequilibrium processes are considered on the basis of an Enskog-Landau kinetic equation using a boundary conditions method. A nonstationary solution of this equation is found in the pair collision approximation. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Kobryn , I. P. Omelyan , M. V. Tokarchuk

We propose a novel score-based particle method for solving the Landau equation in plasmas, that seamlessly integrates learning with structure-preserving particle methods [arXiv:1910.03080]. Building upon the Lagrangian viewpoint of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Yan Huang , Li Wang

Landau damping is the mechanism of plasma and beam stabilization; it arises through energy transfer from collective modes to the incoherent motion of resonant particles. Normally this resonance requires the resonant particle's frequency to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Alexandru Macridin , Alexey Burov , Eric Stern , James Amundson , Panagiotis Spentzouris

We study the kinetic theory of a weakly interacting quantum field. Assuming a state that is close to homogeneous and stationary, we derive a closed kinetic equation for the rate of change of the occupation numbers, perturbatively in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xu-Yao Hu , Vladimir Rosenhaus

This article is devoted to the study of a model of thick sprays which combines the Vlasov equation for the particles and the barotropic compressible Euler equations to describe the fluid, coupled through the gradient of the pressure of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 D. Bian , B. Després , V. Fournet , E. Grenier

We consider a tagged particle in mean field interaction with a free gas of density N at equilibrium. In dimensions $d\geq4$, we prove the convergence of its trajectory, as N goes to infinity, to the one of a diffusion process associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Thierry Bodineau , Pierre Le Bris

In this report, we present a dynamical systems' approach to study the exact nonlinear wave-particle interaction in relativistic regime. We give a particular attention to the effect of wave obliquity on the dynamics of the orbits by studying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 A. Osmane , A. M. Hamza

It is well known that due to its divergence at large impact parameters, the Boltzmann collision integral in the kinetic equation for 3D systems of particles interacting through a $1/r$ potential must be replaced by a Balescu-Lenard-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-21 Y. Chaffi , T. M. Rocha Filho , L. Brenig

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson equations in a weakly collisional regime and study the linear Boltzmann collision operator. We prove that Landau damping still occurs in this case.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Xixia Ma

We present a rigorous analysis of the Landau-Zener linear-in-time term crossing problem for quadratic-nonlinear systems relevant to the coherent association of ultracold atoms in degenerate quantum gases. Our treatment is based on an exact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-11-01 A. Ishkhanyan , B. Joulakian , K. -A. Suominen

Kinetic and hydrodynamic theories are widely employed for describing the collective behaviour of active matter systems. At the fluctuating level, these have been obtained from explicit coarse-graining procedures in the limit where each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Ouassim Feliachi , Marc Besse , Cesare Nardini , Julien Barré

Landau hydrodynamics is a plausible description for the evolution of the dense hot matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We review the formulation of Landau hydrodynamics to pave the way for its application in high-energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Cheuk-Yin Wong

To describe and simulate dynamic micromagnetic phenomena, we consider a coupled system of the nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and the conservation of momentum equation. This coupling allows to include magnetostrictive effects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-10 L'ubomir Banas , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius , Jonathan Rochat

We examine a family of microscopic models of plasmas, with a parameter $\alpha$ comparing the typical distance between collisions to the strength of the grazing collisions. These microscopic models converge in distribution, in the weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Kay Kirkpatrick

A semiclassical method is used to study Landau damping of transverse pseudo-spin waves in harmonically trapped ultracold gases in the collisionless Boltzmann limit. In this approach, the time evolution of a spin is calculated numerically as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Ragan , W. J. Mullin , E. B. Wiita