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Photoexcited hot carriers in solids can drive processes, such as photocatalytic reactions on the surface, beyond those available in thermal equilibrium. Hot-electron-mediated reaction pathways are limited by the thermalization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 Christopher Seibel , Tobias Held , Markus Uehlein , Baerbel Rethfeld

Understanding the non-equilibrium behavior of stainless steel under extreme electronic excitation remains a critical challenge for laser processing and radiation science. We employ a hybrid framework integrating density-functional tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Nikita Medvedev

Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed balance is crucial to achieve biological functions such as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Gnesotto , F. Mura , J. Gladrow , C. P. Broedersz

In this preprint I propose that the non local discrete-state-in-continuum model previously successfully used to describe the inelastic electron molecule collisions can also be used to model the electron photo-detachment from the molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Martin Čížek

A thorough understanding of the energy transfer mechanism from the electric field to electrons is of utmost importance for optimization and control of different plasma sources and processes. This mechanism, called electron power absorption,…

We study the thermodynamic properties of solid and metal electrons in the nonextensive quantum statistics with a nonextensive parameter transformation. First we study the nonextensive grand canonical distribution function and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Yahui Zheng , Jiulin Du

The stationary thermionic electron emission currents from heated metals are compared against an analytical expression derived using a non equilibrium quantum Kappa energy distribution for the electrons. This later depends on the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Juan-Luis Domenech-Garret , Sandra-P. Tierno , Luis Conde

Quantum criticality provides an important route to revealing universal non-equilibrium behaviour. A canonical example of a quantum critical point is the Bose-Hubbard model, which we study under the application of an electric field. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 A. M. Berridge , A. G. Green

This paper describes a simple and general method for deriving the inelastic collision term in the electron Boltzmann equation for scattering from a coupled electron-phonon system, and applies the method to the case of doped polar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 B. A. Sanborn

We combine femtosecond electron diffuse scattering experiments and first-principles calculations of the coupled electron-phonon dynamics to provide a detailed momentum-resolved picture of the ultrafast lattice thermalization in a thin film…

We describe in detail a recently proposed lattice-Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components. In particular, the focus is on the modeling of one-component fluid systems which obey non-ideal gas equations of…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiaowen Shan , Hudong Chen

Tackling the low-temperature fate of supercooled liquids is challenging due to the immense timescales involved, which prevent equilibration and lead to the operational glass transition. Relating glassy behaviour to an underlying,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Francesco Turci , C. Patrick Royall , Thomas Speck

Electron capture by {\it isolated} atoms and ions proceeds by photorecombination. In this process a species captures a free electron by emitting a photon which carries away the excess energy. It is shown here that in the presence of an {\it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 Kirill Gokhberg , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We present an algorithm for solving the one-dimensional space collisional Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for electrons in low-temperature plasmas (LTPs). Modeling LTPs is useful in many applications, including advanced manufacturing,…

In a recent paper [1] the scattering and transport of excess electrons in liquid argon in the hydrodynamic regime was investigated, generalizing the seminal works of Lekner and Cohen [2,3] with modern scattering theory techniques and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 G. J. Boyle , D. G. Cocks , W. J. Tattersall , R. P. McEachran , R. D. White

Based on classical transport theory, we present a general set of covariant equations describing the dynamics of mean fields and their statistical fluctuations in a non-Abelian plasma in or out-of-equilibrium. A procedure to obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel F. Litim , Cristina Manuel

Based on the formalism of thermo field dynamics we propose a concept of nonequilibrium Fock space and nonequilibrium quasiparticles for quantum many-body system in nonequilibrium steady state. We develop a general theory as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-04 D. S. Kosov

A closed set of coupled equations of motion for the description of time-dependent electron transport is derived. It provides the time evolution of energy-resolved quantities constructed from non-equilibrium Green functions. By means of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

We present a lattice-Boltzmann method that can simulate the coupled hydrodynamics and electrostatics equations of motion of a two-phase fluid as a means to model electrowetting phenomena. Our method has the advantage of modelling the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-17 Élfego Ruiz-Gutiérrez , Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar

Numerical models of collisionless shocks robustly predict an electron distribution comprised of both thermal and non-thermal electrons. Here, we explore in detail the effect of thermal electrons on the emergent synchrotron emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Ben Margalit , Eliot Quataert