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It is shown that under certain conditions the resonant transport in mesoscopic systems can be described by modified (quantum) rate equations, which resemble the optical Bloch equations with some additional terms. Detailed microscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. A. Gurvitz , Ya. S. Prager

We study the real-time dynamics of local occupation numbers in a one-dimensional model of spinless fermions with a random on-site potential for a certain class of initial states. The latter are thermal (mixed or pure) states of the model in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-09 Jonas Richter , Jacek Herbrych , Robin Steinigeweg

We develop a general formalism to determine the statistical equilibrium states of self-gravitating systems in general relativity and complete previous works on the subject. Our results are valid for an arbitrary form of entropy but, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-24 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Using a Lagrangian which contains quarks as elementary degrees of freedom and mesons as bound states, a transport formalism is developed, which allows for a dynamical transition from a quark plasma to a state, where quarks are bound into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Rehberg

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

In this paper we study the bicausal optimal transport problem for Markov chains, an optimal transport formulation suitable for stochastic processes which takes into consideration the accumulation of information as time evolves. Our analysis…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Vrettos Moulos

For a plasma in a stationary homogeneous turbulence, the Fokker-Planck equation is derived from the nonlinear Vlasov equation by introducing the entropy principle. The ensemble average in evaluating the kinetic diffusion tensor, whose…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Shaojie Wang

Experiments show that macroscopic systems in a stationary nonequilibrium state exhibit long range correlations of the local thermodynamic variables. In previous papers we proposed a Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the nonequilibrium free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

We derive the Euler equations from quantum dynamics for a class of fermionic many-body systems. We make two types of assumptions. The first type are physical assumptions on the solution of the Euler equations for the given initial data. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruno Nachtergaele , Horng-Tzer Yau

We review a semi-classical transport theory for non-Abelian plasmas based on a classical picture of coloured point particles. Within this formalism, kinetic equations for the mean particle distribution, the mean fields and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel F. Litim , Cristina Manuel

Classical transport equations with probabilistic initial conditions can be viewed as quantum systems. In a discrete version they are probabilistic automata. The time-local probabilistic information is encoded in a classical wave function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Christof Wetterich

Conventional transport theory is not really applicable to non-equilibrium systems which exhibit strong quantum effects. We present two different approaches to overcome this problem. Firstly we point out how transport equations may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 P. A. Henning , K. Nakamura , Y. Yamanaka

In the previous studies, from the Fokker-Planck equation the general spatial transport equation, which contains an infinite number of spatial derivative terms $T_n=\kappa_{nz}\partial^n{F}/ \partial{z^n}$ with $n=1, 2, 3, \cdots$, was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. F. Wang , G. Qin

Thermodynamics of small systems has become an important field of statistical physics. They are driven out of equilibrium by a control, and the question is naturally posed how such a control can be optimized. We show that optimization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-08 Erik Aurell , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

The quantum version of the Boltzmann transport equation (Wigner-Boltzmann equation) is a quite useful tool to investigate the effects of energy dissipation in quantum systems. Numerical approaches uses to be employed in order to stablish a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 A. R. Fernandes Nt. , L. F. Santos

We construct a particle-number(n)-resolved master equation (ME) approach under the self-consistent Born approximation (SCBA) for quantum transport through mesoscopic systems. The formulation is essentially non-Markovian and incorporates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Yu Liu , Jinshuang Jin , Jun Li , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

In quantum systems which satisfy the hypothesis of equal weights for eigenstates [4], the maximum work principle (for extremely slow and relatively fast operation) is derived by using quantum dynamics alone. This may be a crucial step in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hal Tasaki

Quantum dots are versatile systems for exploring quantum transport, electron correlations, and many-body phenomena such as the Kondo effect. While equilibrium properties are well understood through methods like the numerical renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Gustavo Diniz , Silvio Quintino , Vivian V. França

The paramagnetic phase of heavy fermion systems is investigated, using a non-perturbative local moment approach to the asymmetric periodic Anderson model within the framework of dynamical mean field theory. The natural focus is on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 David E Logan , N S Vidhyadhiraja

It is shown how to explicitly coarse-grain the microscopic dynamics of the Vicsek model for self-propelled agents. The macroscopic transport equations are derived by means of an Enskog-type kinetic theory. Expressions for all transport…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Thomas Ihle