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Cosmological simulations describing the evolution of density perturbations of a self-gravitating collisionless Dark Matter (DM) fluid in an expanding background, provide a powerful tool to follow the formation of cosmic structures over wide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Luca Cappelli , Francesco Tacchino , Giuseppe Murante , Stefano Borgani , Ivano Tavernelli

We present a review of recent developments of simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations using a Fourier transform method in velocity space. In this method, the distribution functions for electrons and ions are Fourier…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson

Quantum computing promises exponential improvements in solving large systems of partial differential equations (PDE), which forms a bottleneck in high-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, in, among others, aerospace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vladyslav Bohun , Andrij Kuzmak , Maciej Koch-Janusz

We present a quantum algorithmic framework for simulating linear, anti-Hermitian (lossless) wave equations in heterogeneous, anisotropic, and time-independent media. This framework encompasses a broad class of wave equations, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Cyrill Bösch , Malte Schade , Giacomo Aloisi , Scott D. Keating , Andreas Fichtner

Vlasov equations model the dynamics of plasma in the collisionless regime. A standard approach for numerically solving the Vlasov equation is to operator split the spatial and velocity derivative terms, allowing simpler time-stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 James A. Rossmanith , Christine Vaughan

Nonlinear stochastic differential equations (NSDEs) are a pillar of mathematical modeling for scientific and engineering applications. Accurate and efficient simulation of large-scale NSDEs is prohibitive on classical computers due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Xiangyu Li , Ahmet Burak Catli , Ho Kiat Lim , Matthew Pocrnic , Dong An , Jin-Peng Liu , Nathan Wiebe

The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

Fluid simulations, especially at high Reynolds numbers, are computationally expensive on classical computers, making them promising application targets for quantum computing. Recent studies have combined the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Kazumasa Ueno , Keita Kanno , Yasunori Lee

Many phenomena in collisionless plasma physics require a kinetic description. The evolution of the phase space density can be modeled by means of the Vlasov equation, which has to be solved numerically in most of the relevant cases. One of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 T. Trost , S. Lautenbach , R. Grauer

We consider linear stability of steady states of 1(1/2) and 3D Vlasov-Maxwell systems for collisionless plasmas. The linearized systems can be written as separable Hamiltonian systems with constraints. By using a general theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhiwu Lin

Dense quantum plasmas out of equilibrium are successfully modeled using quantum kinetic equations, such as the quantum Boltzmann, Landau or Balescu-Lenard equation. However, these equations do not properly take into account correlation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 C. Makait , M. Bonitz

This paper reviews Vlasov-based numerical methods used to model plasma in space physics and astrophysics. Plasma consists of collectively behaving charged particles that form the major part of baryonic matter in the Universe. Many concepts…

We present a dequantization algorithm for the Vlasov--Poisson (VP) system, termed the dequantized particle algorithm, by systematically dequantizing the underlying many-body quantum theory. Starting from the second-quantized Hamiltonian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Hong Qin , Michael Q. May , Jacob Molina

The collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE) is a fundamental equation that governs the dynamics of a broad range of astrophysical systems from space plasma to star clusters and galaxies. It is computationally expensive to integrate the CBE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Soichiro Yamazaki , Fumio Uchida , Kotaro Fujisawa , Koichi Miyamoto , Naoki Yoshida

In this article, we study a collisionless kinetic model for plasmas in the neighborhood of a cylindrical metallic Langmuir probe. This model consists in a bi-species Vlasov-Poisson equation in a domain contained between two cylinders with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Mehdi Badsi , Ludovic Godard-Cadillac

In this paper, we present very first results for the adaptive solution on a grid of the phase space of the Vlasov equation arising in particles accelarator and plasma physics. The numerical algorithm is based on a semi-Lagrangian method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Besse , Francis Filbet , Michael Gutnic , Ioana Paun , Eric Sonnendrücker

Many methods solve Poisson equations by using grid techniques which discretize the problem in each dimension. Most of these algorithms are subject to the curse of dimensionality, so that they need exponential runtime. In the paper "Quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Michael Holzmann , Harald Koestler

Linear dissipative differential equation is a fundamental model for a large number of physical systems, such as quantum dynamics with non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, open quantum system dynamics, diffusion process and damped system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Gengzhi Yang , Akwum Onwunta , Dong An

Kinetic equations are difficult to solve numerically due to their high dimensionality. A promising approach for reducing computational cost is the dynamical low-rank algorithm, which decouples the dimensions of the phase space by proposing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Jack Coughlin , Jingwei Hu

As quantum hardware rapidly advances toward the early fault-tolerant era, a key challenge is to develop quantum algorithms that are not only theoretically sound but also hardware-friendly on near-term devices. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Di Fang , David Lloyd George , Yu Tong