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Diffusion-induced Ramsey narrowing that appears when atoms can leave the interaction region and repeatedly return without lost of coherence is investigated using strong collisions approximation. The effective diffusion equation is obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 Alexander Romanenko , Leonid Yatsenko

While hard-sphere models form the foundation of theoretical condensed matter physics, real systems often exhibit some degree of softness. We present a theoretical and numerical study of a class of nearly hard-sphere systems, generalized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Ulf R. Pedersen

Diffusion phenomena in a multiple component lattice Boltzmann Equation (LBE) model are discussed in detail. The mass fluxes associated with different mechanical driving forces are obtained using a Chapman-Enskog analysis. This model is…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiaowen Shan , Gary Doolen

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

We investigate equilibrium properties of two very different stochastic collision models: (i) the Rayleigh particle and (ii) the driven Maxwell gas. For both models the equilibrium velocity distribution is a L\'evy distribution, the Maxwell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Barkai

We derive the Boltzmann equation for scalar fields using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The focus lies on the derivation of the collision term. We show that the relevant self-energy diagrams have a factorization property. The collision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Steffen Weinstock

A deterministic method is proposed for solving the Boltzmann equation. The method employs a Galerkin discretization of the velocity space and adopts, as trial and test functions, the collocation basis functions based on weights and roots of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

We study the structure of a shock wave for a two-, three- and four-component gas mixture on the basis of numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for the model of hard sphere molecules. For the evaluation of collision integrals we use…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-14 A. A. Raines

The $H$-theorem, originally derived at the level of Boltzmann non-linear kinetic equation for a dilute gas undergoing elastic collisions, strongly constrains the velocity distribution of the gas to evolve irreversibly towards equilibrium.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-24 M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar , S. Mischler , C. Mouhot , T. Rey , E. Trizac

The isospin diffusion and other irreversible phenomena are discussed for a two-component nuclear Fermi system. The set of Boltzmann transport equations, such as employed for reactions, are linearized, for weak deviations of a system from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Shi , P. Danielewicz

We consider a dilute gas of hard spheres in dimension $d \geq 2$ that upon collision either annihilate with probability $p$ or undergo an elastic scattering with probability $1-p$. For such a system neither mass, momentum, nor kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Coppex , Michel Droz , Emmanuel Trizac

We present a new approach to the statistics of the cosmic density field and to the mass distribution of high-contrast structures, based on the formalism of Cayley trees. Our approach includes in one random process both fluctuations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cavaliere , N. Menci

It is shown that the BBGKY equations for a particle interacting with ideal gas imply exact relations between probability distribution of path of the particle, its derivatives in respect to the gas density and irreducible many-particle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-04 Yuriy Kuzovlev

The aim of this work is to study the electron transport in graphene with impurities by introducing a generalization of linear response theory for linear dispersion relations and spinor wave functions. Current response and density response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Paula Jasen , Estela Gonzalez , Alfredo Juan

We present a systematic theory of dissipation in finite Fermi systems like nuclei and metallic clusters. This theory is based on the application of semiclassical methods and random matrix theory to linear response of many-body systems. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sudhir R. Jain

In order to understand the dynamical mechanism of the friction phenomena, we heavily rely on the numerical analysis using various methods: molecular dynamics, Langevin equation, lattice Boltzmann method, Monte Carlo, e.t.c.. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-28 Shoichi Ichinose

We study the diffusion of $N$ particles in one dimension interacting via a drift proportional to their rank. In the attractive case (self-gravitating gas) a mapping to the Lieb Liniger quantum model allows to obtain stationary time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-24 Pierre Le Doussal

We investigate the far-from-equilibrium behavior of the Boltzmann equation for a gas of massless scalar field particles with quartic (tree level) self-interactions ($\lambda \phi^4$) in Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Nicki Mullins , Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

A kinetic theory for relativistic gases in the presence of gravitational fields is developed in the second post-Newtonian approximation. The corresponding Boltzmann equation is determined from the evolution of the one-particle distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-04 Gilberto M. Kremer

This review is a kinetic theory study investigating the effects of inelasticity on the structure of the non-equilibrium states, in particular on the behavior of the velocity distribution in the high energy tails. Starting point is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Brito , M. H. Ernst