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Realistic effective interparticle interactions of quantum many-body systems are widely seen as being short-range. However, the rigorous mathematical analysis of this type of model turns out to be extremely difficult, in general, with many…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , K. Rodrigues Alves

We demonstrate that a nonthermal distribution of particles described by a kappa distribution can be accurately approximated by a weighted sum of Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions. We apply this method to modeling collision processes in…

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We propose a simple microscopic model for arching phenomena at bottlenecks. The dynamics of particles in front of a bottleneck is described by a one-dimensional stochastic cellular automaton on a semicircular geometry. The model reproduces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Takumi Masuda , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Andreas Schadschneider

Modeling the dynamics of colloidal rods remains a central challenge in soft-matter physics due to the anisotropic and long-ranged nature of their interactions. Hydrodynamic interactions in rods suspensions are often assumed to be screened…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Lucas H. P. Cunha , Paul F. Salipante , Peter D. Olmsted , Steven D. Hudson

Multi-particle collision dynamics is an appealing numerical technique aiming at simulating fluids at the mesoscopic scale. It considers molecular details in a coarse-grained fashion and reproduces hydrodynamic phenomena. Here, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-28 H. Híjar

We study certain aspects of the effective, occasionally called collective, description of complex quantum systems within the framework of the path integral formalism, in which the environment is integrated out. Generalising the standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Eckern , M. J. Gruber , P. Schwab

The small collision systems like p+p and p+A collisions have shown new features like A+A collisions in the relativistic regime. These new aspects in small systems which have altered our research and understanding on the two-particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-06 Debasish Das

We investigate the impact of momentum-dependent relaxation time approximation in the Boltzmann equation within the Bjorken flow framework by analyzing the moments of the single-particle distribution function. The moment equations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

The statistical thermodynamics of binary mixtures of polyatomic species was developed on a generalization in the spirit of the lattice-gas model and the quasi-chemical approximation (QCA). The new theoretical framework is obtained by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 M. V. Dávila , P. M. Pasinetti , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez , A. J. Ramirez-Pastor

We investigate the electrostatic interactions between two charged anisotropic conductors using a combination of asymptotic and numerical methods. For widely separated particles, we employ the method of reflections to analyze the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-13 Harshit Joshi , Anubhab Roy

This paper presents a numerical study of flow through static random assemblies of monodisperse, spherical particles. A lattice Boltzmann approach based on a two relaxation time collision operator is used to obtain reliable predictions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-08 Simon Bogner , Swati Mohanty , Ulrich Rüde

Context. Solar energetic particles observed in association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are produced by the CME-driven shock waves. The acceleration of particles is considered to be due to diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Aims. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Alexandr Afanasiev , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio

Collapse, or a gravitational-like phase transition is studied in a microcanonical ensemble of particles with an attractive $1/r^{\alpha}$ potential. A mean field continuous integral equation is used to determine a saddle-point density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Ispolatov , E. G. D. Cohen

We report results from a multiphase transport (AMPT) model on the rapidity and system size dependence of charged hadron anisotropic flows in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Che Ming Ko , Lie-Wen Chen

We present a method to probe real-time dynamics in quantum mesoscopic systems using Ramsey interferometry. This allows us to explore the effect of interactions on quasi-particles in the time domain. We investigate the dephasing effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Tal Goren , Karyn Le Hur , Eric Akkermans

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

Based on the path integral representation of the partition function of a many body system with separable two body interaction we propose a systematic extension of the perturbed static path approximation (PSPA) to lower temperatures.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Rummel , Joachim Ankerhold

Based on rare fluctuations in strong interactions, we argue that there is a strong physical resemblance between the high multiplicity events in photo-nuclear collisions and those in $pA$ collisions, in which interesting long range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Yu Shi , Lei Wang , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao , Liang Zheng

We study the jamming transition of two-dimensional point-to-point traffic through cooperative mechanisms using computer simulation. We propose two decentralized cooperative mechanisms which are incorporated into the point-to-point traffic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Jun Fang , Zheng Qin , Xiqun Chen , Zhaohui Xu

We introduce and analyze a model for the transport of particles or energy in extended lattice systems. The dynamics of the model acts on a discrete phase space at discrete times but has nonetheless some of the characteristic properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Raphael Lefevere