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This article investigates the collisionless Boltzmann equation up to second order in the cosmological perturbations. It describes the gauge dependence of the distribution function and the construction of a gauge invariant distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cyril Pitrou

We discuss cosmological consequences of the existence of physics beyond the standard model that exhibits Banks-Zaks and unparticle behavior in the UV and IR respectively. We first derive the equation of state for unparticles and use it to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 Bohdan Grzadkowski , Jose Wudka

Quite a many electron transport problems in condensed matter physics are analyzed with a quasiparticle Boltzmann equation. For sufficiently slowly varying weak external potentials it can be derived from the basic equations of quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-12 F. X. Bronold , F. Willert

We derive the 3D spatially homogeneous Boltzmann's equation with moderately soft potentials and singular angular interaction, from an interacting particles system. The collision kernel is of the form $B(z,\sigma)=|z|^{\gamma}b\left(…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Samir Salem

A novel refinement of the conventional treatment of Kadanoff--Baym equations is suggested. Besides the Boltzmann equation another differential equation is used for calculating the evolution of the non-equilibrium two-point function.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Jakovac

In this paper we revisit the derivation of boundary conditions for the Boltzmann Equation. The interaction between the wall atoms and the gas molecules within a thin surface layer is described by a kinetic equation introduced in [9] and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Stéphane Brull , Pierre Charrier , Luc Mieussens

Starting from a Caldeira-Leggett model for the interaction of a system with an environment, Joichi, Matsumoto, and Yoshimura have reconsidered the derivation of the quantum Boltzmann equation. They find an extra term that accounts for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anupam Singh , Mark Srednicki

We present a formulation of cosmological perturbation theory where the Boltzmann hierarchies that evolve the neutrino phase-space distributions are replaced by integrals that can be evaluated easily with fast Fourier transforms. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Lingyuan Ji , Marc Kamionkowski , Jose Luis Bernal

In this work, we study the formal connections between the non-linear Fokker-Planck Equation associated with the non-additive entropy and the Boltzmann Equation with the non-additive correlation functional. The collisional term following the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-23 Airton Deppman , Alireza K. Golmankhaneh , Eugenio Megias , Roman Pasechnik

In this paper we complete the program initiated by the first and second authors and rigorously derive a Boltzmann-type equation that incorporates higher order collisions among gas particles. More precisely, starting from a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Nataša Pavlović , William Warner

We use the formalism of Geometrothermodynamics to derive a series of fundamental equations for thermodynamic systems. It is shown that all these fundamental equations can be used in the context of relativistic cosmology to derive diverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-21 Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

We provide a general framework for self-interacting warm dark matter (WDM) in cosmological perturbations, by deriving from first principles a Boltzmann hierarchy which retains certain independence from a particular interaction Lagrangian.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-28 Rafael Yunis , Carlos R. Argüelles , Diana López Nacir

Inconsistencies are pointed out in the usual quantum versions of the classical linear Boltzmann equation constructed for a quantized test particle in a gas. These are related to the incorrect formal treatment of momentum decoherence. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lajos Diosi

Boltzmann equation describes the time development of the velocity distribution in the continuum fluid matter. We formulate the equation using the field theory where the {\it velocity-field} plays the central role. The matter (constituent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-10 Shoichi Ichinose

Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

We connect two different generalizations of Boltzmann's kinetic theory by requiring the same stationary solution. Non-extensive statistics can be produced by either using corresponding collision rates nonlinear in the one-particle densities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. S. Biro , G. Kaniadakis

We reconsider the thermodynamic derivation by L. Boltzmann of the Stefan law and we generalize it for various different physical systems {\it whose chemical potential vanishes}. Being only based on classical arguments, therefore independent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-09 Gilles Montambaux

Within the framework of the interacting fluid formalism, we provide the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation describing the evolution of an inflaton field coupled to radiation. We study the behavior of the system during the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Luca Visinelli

The Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the phase-space probability distribution of classical particles under binary collisions. Approximations to it underlie the basis for several scholarly fields, including aerodynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 George J. Wilkie , Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow

This article describes methods for the deterministic simulation of the collisional Boltzmann equation. It presumes that the transport and collision parts of the equation are to be simulated separately in the time domain. Time stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Akil Narayan , Andreas Klöckner