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A set of quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived from the moments of the electrostatic mean-field Wigner kinetic equation. No assumptions are made on the particular local equilibrium or on the statistical ensemble wave functions. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , J. Zamanian

In this study we apply the maximum entropy principle to derive the properly scaled velocity distribution function of Boltzmann equations for mixtures, which leads to a non-isothermal Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model. We also analyze the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Benjamin Anwasia , Srboljub Simić

We formulate a relativistic hydrodynamic theory for fluids with spin and intrinsic dilation charges. Using an entropy-current analysis, we derive constitutive relations featuring a bulk viscosity and a dilation conductivity governing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 Zhong-Hua Zhang , Xi-Hu Lv , Xu-Guang Huang

Starting at the mesoscopic level with a general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics in terms of Markov jump processes, we identify the scaling conditions that ensure the emergence of a (typically nonlinear) deterministic dynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-26 Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Dynamics of many-particle systems with long-range interaction is collisionless and governed by the Vlasov equation. This dynamics is a flow of a six-dimensional incompressible liquid with uncountable integrals of motion. If the flow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Victor M. Pergamenshchik

We derive a linearly causal and stable third-order relativistic fluid-dynamical theory from the Boltzmann equation using the method of moments. For this purpose, we demonstrate that such theory must include novel degrees of freedom,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-21 Caio V. P. de Brito , Gabriel S. Denicol

Fluid dynamics corresponds to the dynamics of a substance in the long wavelength limit. Writing down all terms in a gradient (long wavelength) expansion up to second order for a relativistic system at vanishing charge density, one obtains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-22 Paul Romatschke

A recently introduced particle-based model for fluid dynamics with effective excluded volume interactions is analyzed in detail. The interactions are modeled by means of stochastic multiparticle collisions which are biased and depend on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel

Understanding transport processes in complex nanoscale systems, like ionic conductivities in nanofluidic devices or heat conduction in low dimensional solids, poses the problem of examining fluctuations of currents within nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David T. Limmer , Chloe Y. Gao , Anthony R. Poggioli

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

In recent work [1] we uncovered intriguing connections between Otto's characterisation of diffusion as entropic gradient flow [16] on one hand and large-deviation principles describing the microscopic picture (Brownian motion) on the other.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Stefan Adams , Nicolas Dirr , Mark A. Peletier , Johannes Zimmer

We derive minimal discrete models of the Boltzmann equation consistent with equilibrium thermodynamics, and which recover correct hydrodynamics in arbitrary dimensions. A simple analytical procedure of constructing the equilibrium for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Santosh Ansumali , Iliya V. Karlin , Hans Christian Öttinger

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a non-perturbative reorganization of relativistic hydrodynamics that takes into account the large momentum-space anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. As a result, it allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-06 Michael Strickland

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

The well-known hydrodynamical representation of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is reformulated by extending the idea of Nelson-Yasue's stochastic variational method. The fluid flow is composed by the two stochastic processes from the past and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 T. Kodama , T. Koide

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a reorganization of the relativistic hydrodynamics expansion, with the leading order already containing substantial momentum-space anisotropies. The latter are a cause of concern in the traditional viscous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Leonardo Tinti

Electron hydrodynamics arises when momentum-relaxing scattering processes are slow compared to momentum-conserving ones. While the microscopic details necessary to satisfy this condition are material-specific, experimentally accessible…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-14 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Prineha Narang

We formulate the equations of fluid dynamics as an intersection-theoretic problem on an infinite-dimensional symplectic manifold naturally associated with spacetime. This perspective separates the structures determined by the equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Nikita Nekrasov , Paul Wiegmann

We evaluate the full opacity dependence of collective flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions within a microscopic kinetic description based on the Boltzmann equation in the conformal relaxation time approximation. By comparing kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Victor E. Ambrus , S. Schlichting , C. Werthmann

We apply stochastic hydrodynamics to the study of charge density fluctuations in QCD matter undergoing Bjorken expansion. We find that the charge density correlations are given by a time integral over the history of the system, with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-09 B. Ling , T. Springer , M. Stephanov