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The density operator of the arbitrary physical system must be positive definite. Employing the general master equation technique which preserves this property we derive equations of motion for the density operator of an active atom which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert Alicki , Stanisław Kryszewski

The goal of this work is to present an approach to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules with a physical collision kernel which allows us to construct unique solutions to the initial value problem in a space of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-13 Marco Cannone , Grzegorz Karch

Some mathematical inconsistencies in the conventional form of Maxwell's equations extended by Lorentz for a single charge system are discussed. To surmount these in framework of Maxwellian theory, a novel convection displacement current is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Andrew E. Chubykalo , Roman Smirnov-Rueda

We consider the Boltzmann operator for mixtures with cutoff Maxwellian, hard potentials, or hard spheres collision kernels. In a perturbative regime around the global Maxwellian equilibrium, the linearized Boltzmann multi-species operator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Andrea Bondesan , Laurent Boudin , Marc Briant , Bérénice Grec

The Boltzmann kinetic equation for dilute granular suspensions under simple (or uniform) shear flow (USF) is considered to determine the non-Newtonian transport properties of the system. In contrast to previous attempts based on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-18 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

In this paper, we present a conservative semi-Lagrangian finite-difference scheme for the BGK model. Classical semi-Lagrangian finite difference schemes, coupled with an L-stable treatment of the collision term, allow large time steps, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Sebastiano Boscarino , Seung-Yeon Cho , Giovanni Russo , Seok-Bae Yun

It is shown that early suggested derivation of the Boltzmann kinetic equation for dilute hard sphere gas from the time-reversible BBGKY equations is incorrect since in fact a priori substitutes for them definite irreversible equations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-09 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

Exerting a nonequilibrium drive on an otherwise equilibrium Langevin process brings the dynamics out of equilibrium but can also speedup the approach to the Boltzmann steady-state. Transverse forces are a minimal framework to achieve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-19 Federico Ghimenti , Ludovic Berthier , Grzegorz Szamel , Frédéric van Wijland

In this paper we study multivariate kinetic-type equations in a general setup, which includes in particular the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with Maxwellian molecules, both with elastic and inelastic collisions. Using a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Sebastian Mentemeier , Glib Verovkin

We present a new derivation of the conservative form of the general relativistic Boltzmann equation and specialize it to the 3+1 metric. The resulting transport equation is intended for use in simulations involving numerical relativity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Christian Y. Cardall , Eirik Endeve , Anthony Mezzacappa

We propose a new spectral Lagrangian based deterministic solver for the non-linear Boltzmann Transport Equation for Variable Hard Potential (VHP) collision kernels with conservative or non-conservative binary interactions. The method is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Irene M. Gamba , Sri Harsha Tharkabhushanam

We investigate in this article the long-time behaviour of the solutions to the energy-dependant, spatially-homogeneous, inelastic Boltzmann equation for hard spheres. This model describes a diluted gas composed of hard spheres under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Thomas Rey

This paper aims to justify the Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation for electrons, preserving the dynamics of ions at the kinetic level. Under sufficient regularity assumption, we provide a precise scaling where the Maxwell-Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Claude Bardos , François Golse , Toan T. Nguyen , Rémi Sentis

We prove a bound on the entropy dissipation for the Boltzmann collision operator from below by a weighted $L^p$-Norm. The estimate holds for a wide range of potentials including soft potentials as well as very soft potentials. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Jamil Chaker , Luis Silvestre

We aim at deriving an equation of motion for specific sums of momentum mode occupation numbers from models for electrons in periodic lattices experiencing elastic scattering, electron-phonon scattering or electron-electron scattering. These…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-05-18 Christian Bartsch , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

The transport coefficients for a gas of smooth, inelastic hard spheres are obtained from the Boltzmann equation in the form of Green-Kubo relations. The associated time correlation functions are not simply those constructed from the fluxes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey

Generative models based on invertible transformations provide a physics-aware route to sample equilibrium configurations directly from the Boltzmann distribution, enabling efficient exploration of complex thermodynamic landscapes. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Luigi de Santis , John Russo , Andrea Ninarello

We design an asymptotic-preserving scheme for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation which leads to an energy-transport system for electron mass and internal energy as mean free path goes to zero. To overcome the stiffness induced by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Jingwei Hu , Li Wang

The initial-boundary value problem for the inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we study the stability and long-time dynamics of the Boltzmann equation near a global Maxwellian without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Dingqun Deng

Homo-energetic solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation have been extensively studied, but their global stability in the inhomogeneous setting remains challenging due to unbounded energy growth under self-similar scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Shunlin Shen