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Finite-$N$ effects unavoidably drive the long-term evolution of long-range interacting $N$-body systems. The Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation generically describes this process sourced by ${1/N}$ effects but this kinetic operator exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

The long-term dynamics of long-range interacting $N$-body systems can generically be described by the Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation. However, for ${1D}$ homogeneous systems, this collision operator exactly vanishes by symmetry. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-04 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Long-range interacting systems irreversibly relax as a result of their finite number of particles, $N$. At order $1/N$, this process is described by the inhomogeneous Balescu--Lenard equation. Yet, this equation exactly vanishes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry

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 complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, or using projection operator technics or a quasilinear theory, a general kinetic equation can be derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Quasi-Stationary States of long-range interacting systems have been studied at length over the last fifteen years. It is known that the collisional terms of the Balescu-Lenard and Landau equations vanish for one-dimensional systems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-01 A. Figueiredo , T. M. Rocha Filho , A. E. Santana , M. A. Amato

We study the growth of correlations in systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, we determine the evolution of the two-body correlation function by using an expansion of the solutions of the hierarchy in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We investigate the long-term relaxation of a distribution of $N$ point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. To focus on the regime of weak collective amplification, we embed these point vortices within a static background potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Sometimes the dynamics of a physical system is described by non-Hamiltonian equations of motion, and additionally, the system is characterized by long-range interactions. A concrete example is that of particles interacting with light as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-15 Alessandro Campa , Shamik Gupta

We complete the kinetic theory of inhomogeneous systems with long-range interactions initiated in previous works. We use a simpler and more physical formalism. We consider a system of particles submitted to a small external stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We investigate the secular dynamics of long-range interacting particles moving on a sphere, in the limit of an axisymmetric mean field potential. We show that this system can be described by the general kinetic equation, the inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Ben Bar-Or , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Systems with long-range interactions often relax towards statistical equilibrium over timescales that diverge with $N$, the number of particles. A recent work [S. Gupta and D. Mukamel, J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P03015 (2011)] analyzed a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Julien Barré , Shamik Gupta

We review and complete the kinetic theory of spatially inhomogeneous stellar systems when collective effects (dressing of the stars by their polarization cloud) are neglected. We start from the BBGKY hierarchy issued from the Liouville…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We provide a short historic of the early development of kinetic theory in plasma physics and synthesize the basic kinetic equations describing the evolution of systems with long-range interactions derived in Paper I. We describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-12 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We develop a kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects and spatial inhomogeneity into account. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear approximation, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A kinetic equation for the collisional evolution of stable, bound, self gravitating and slowly relaxing systems is established, which is valid when the number of constituents is very large. It accounts for the detailed dynamics and self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-04 Jean Heyvaerts

Systems of particles with long range interactions present two important processes: first, the formation of out-of-equilibrium quasi-stationary states (QSS), and the collisional relaxation towards Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium in a much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Fernanda P. C. Benetti , Bruno Marcos

The dynamics of quasi-stationary states of long-range interacting systems with $N$ particles can be described by kinetic equations such as the Balescu-Lenard and Landau equations. In the case of one-dimensional homogeneous systems, two-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-09 C. R. Lourenço , T. M. Rocha Filho

We discuss the kinetic theory of stellar systems and two-dimensional vortices and stress their analogies. We recall the derivation of the Landau and Lenard-Balescu equations from the Klimontovich formalism. These equations take into account…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

One-dimensional self-gravitating systems admit genuine thermodynamical equilibria. For systems with strictly monotonic orbital frequency profile, the Landau and Balescu-Lenard theories predict a relaxation time scaling linearly with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Kerwann Tep , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon
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