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The Vlasov-Poisson systems of equations (VP) describes the evolution of a distribution of collisionless particles under the effect of a collective-field potential. VP is at the basis of the study of the gravitational instability of…

The diversity of structures in the Universe (from the smallest galaxies to the largest superclusters) has formed under the pull of gravity from the tiny primordial perturbations that we see imprinted in the cosmic microwave background. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Matthieu Schaller , Claude Becker , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Alexey Boyarsky , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

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

We demonstrate that the Vlasov equation describing collisionless self-gravitating matter may be solved with the so-called Schr\"odinger method (ScM). With the ScM, one solves the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system of equations for a complex wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Kopp , Kyriakos Vattis , Constantinos Skordis

State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster than classical computers, using exponentially less energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Philip Mocz , Aaron Szasz

We compare two different numerical methods to integrate in time spatially delocalized initial densities using the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation system as the evolution law. The basic equation is a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-10 Nico Schwersenz , Victor Loaiza , Tim Zimmermann , Javier Madroñero , Sandro Wimberger

Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed to solve static and dynamic problems of closed many-body quantum systems. Here we investigate variational quantum simulation of three general types of tasks---generalised time evolution with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Suguru Endo , Jinzhao Sun , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

We investigate large-scale structure formation of collisionless dark matter in the phase space description based on the Vlasov equation whose nonlinearity is induced solely by gravitational interaction according to the Poisson equation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-16 Cora Uhlemann , Michael Kopp , Thomas Haugg

We study the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) method in the context of cosmological large-scale structure formation in an expanding background. In the limit $\hbar \to 0$, the SP technique can be viewed as an effective method to sample the phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Mathias Garny , Thomas Konstandin , Henrique Rubira

The kinetic analyses of many-particle soft matter often employ many simulation studies of various physical phenomena which supplement the experimental limitations or compliment the theoretical findings of the study. Such simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Allen Lobo , Vinod Kumar Sayal

The Vlasov equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that provides a first-principles description of the dynamics of plasmas. Its linear limit is routinely used in plasma physics to investigate plasma oscillations and stability.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Abtin Ameri , Paola Cappellaro , Hari Krovi , Nuno F. Loureiro , Erika Ye

Cold dark matter (CDM) evolves as a collisionless fluid under the Vlasov-Poisson equations, but N-body simulations approximate this evolution by discretising the distribution function into particles, introducing discreteness effects at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Nicolas Cerardi , Emma Tolley , Ashutosh Mishra

Kinetic simulations of collisionless (or weakly collisional) plasmas using the Vlasov equation are often infeasible due to high resolution requirements and the exponential scaling of computational cost with respect to dimension. Recently,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Erika Ye , Nuno F. G. Loureiro

We investigate large scale structure formation of collisionless dark matter in the phase space description based on the Vlasov-Poisson equation. We present the Schr\"odinger method, originally proposed by Widrow and Kaiser (1993) as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-09 Cora Uhlemann , Michael Kopp

We investigate the evolution of cosmic voids in the Schrodinger Poisson formalism, finding wave mechanical solutions for the dynamics in a standard cosmological background with appropriate boundary conditions. We compare the results in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Aoibhinn Gallagher , Peter Coles

We develop a quantum algorithm for solving high-dimensional fractional Poisson equations. By applying the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension, the $d$-dimensional fractional equation is reformulated as a local partial differential equation in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

Since dark matter almost exclusively interacts gravitationally, the phase-space dynamics is described by the Vlasov-Poisson equation. A key characteristic is its infinite cumulant hierarchy, a tower of coupled evolution equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Cora Uhlemann

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid of cold dark matter (CDM) can be written in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation describing Newtonian gravity. It has recently been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Short , P. Coles

N-body simulations are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. However, the discrete nature of these simulations affects their accuracy when modelling collisionless systems. We introduce a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo

Investigating the cosmological implication of the fact that neutrino has finite mass is of importance for fundamental physics. In particular, massive neutrino affects the formation of the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe, and,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Koichi Miyamoto , Soichiro Yamazaki , Fumio Uchida , Kotaro Fujisawa , Naoki Yoshida
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