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Using a generalized Langevin equation of motion, quantum ballistic thermal transport is obtained from classical molecular dynamics. This is possible because the heat baths are represented by random noises obeying quantum Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-16 Jian-Sheng Wang

We develop the kinetic theory of classical and quantum particles (fermions and bosons) in gravitational interaction. The kinetic theory of quantum particles may have applications in the context of dark matter. For simplicity, we consider an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-02 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We analyze in detail the quantum phase transitions that arise in models based on the $u(2)$ algebraic description for bosonic systems with two types of scalar bosons. First we discuss the quantum phase transition that occurs in hamiltonians…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Fortunato , L. Sartori

We present a general quantum kinetic theory that accounts for the interplay between a temperature gradient, momentum-space Berry curvatures of Bloch electrons, and Bloch-state scattering. Using a theory that incorporates the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Akihiko Sekine , Naoto Nagaosa

We derive quantum Boltzmann equations from Schwinger-Dyson equations in gradient expansion for a weakly coupled scalar field theory with a spatially varying mass. We find that at higher order in gradients a full description of the system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Joyce , Kimmo Kainulainen , Tomislav Prokopec

Cold atomic gases of interacting bosons subject to rapid rotation and confined in anharmonic traps can theoretically exhibit analogues of the fractional quantum Hall effect for electrons in strong magnetic fields. In this setting the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

We derive a general energy balance equation for a self-interacting boson gas at vanishing temperature in a curved spacetime. This represents a first step towards a formulation of the first law of thermodynamics for a scalar field in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-04 Tonatiuh Matos , Ana Avilez , Tula Bernal , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Exact formulas for the Hall coefficient, modified Nernst coefficient, and thermal Hall coefficient of metals are derived from the Kubo formula. These coefficients depend exclusively on equilibrium (time independent) susceptibilities, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Assa Auerbach

We solve a Schrodinger equation for inelastic quantum transport that retains full quantum coherence, in contrast to previous rate or Boltzmann equation approaches. The model Hamiltonian is the zero temperature 1d Holstein model for an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Janez Bonca , S. A. Trugman

We obtain a set of general formulae for determining magnetizations, including the usual electromagnetic magnetization as well as the gravitomagnetic energy magnetization. The magnetization corrections to the thermal transport coefficients…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-15 Tao Qin , Qian Niu , Junren Shi

We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

We study the existence theory of solutions of the kinetic Bohmian equation, a nonlinear Vlasov-type equation proposed for the phase-space formulation of Bohmian mechanics. Our main idea is to interpret the kinetic Bohmian equation as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Wilfrid Gangbo , Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich , Jesus Sierra

We formulate the Kohn-Sham equations for the fractional quantum Hall effect by mapping the original electron problem into an auxiliary problem of composite fermions that experience a density dependent effective magnetic field.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yayun Hu , J. K. Jain

We study the abundance of a particle species in a thermalized plasma by introducing a quantum kinetic description based on the non-equilibrium effective action. A stochastic interpretation of quantum kinetics in terms of a Langevin equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , K. Davey , C. M. Ho

We consider the singular electron-electron interaction corrections to the transport coefficients in disordered metals to test the validity of the Wiedemann-Franz law. We develop a local, quantum kinetic equation approach in which the charge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-09-25 G. Catelani , I. L. Aleiner

We reveal the unexpected role of the material inhomogeneity in unifying the formulation of intrinsic thermal and thermoelectric transport as well as magnetization currents. The smooth inhomogeneity leads to the position dependent local band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

We clearly show that the symplectic structures deformations lead, upon quantization, to quantum theories of non commutative fields. Two variants of deformations are considered. The quantization is performed and the modes expansions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Daoud , A. Hamama

We derive transport equations for fermions and bosons in spatially or temporally varying backgrounds with special symmetries, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. In a noninteracting theory the coherence information is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry M. Rahkila

We study conformal properties of the quantum kinetic equations in curved spacetime. A transformation law for the covariant Wigner function under conformal transformations of a spacetime is derived by using the formalism of tangent bundles.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Oleg A. Fonarev