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In this paper we derive accurate numerical methods for the quantum Boltzmann equation for a gas of interacting bosons. The schemes preserve the main physical features of the continuous problem, namely conservation of mass and energy, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-15 P. A. Markowitch , L. Pareschi

We derive quantum Boltzmann equations for preheating by means of the density matrix formalism, which account for both the non-adiabatic particle production and the leading collisional processes between the produced particles. In so doing,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-01 William T. Emond , Peter Millington , Paul M. Saffin

A recent reformulation [1] of the problem of Coulomb gases in the presence of a dynamical dielectric medium showed that finite temperature simulations of such systems can be accomplished on the basis of completely local Hamiltonians on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Duncan , R. D. Sedgewick

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,…

Using the test-particle method, we solve numerically the Boltzmann equation for an ultra-cold gas of trapped fermions with realistic particle number and trap geometry in the normal phase. We include a mean-field potential and in-medium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-28 Pierre-Alexandre Pantel , Dany Davesne , Michael Urban

We benchmark the ZPC parton cascade with an exact analytical solution of the relativistic Boltzmann equation for a homogeneous and massless gas with a constant and isotropic elastic cross section. We measure the accuracy of ZPC with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Todd Mendenhall , Zi-Wei Lin

The nested sampling algorithm has been shown to be a general method for calculating the pressure-temperature-composition phase diagrams of materials. While the previous implementation used single-particle Monte Carlo moves, these are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-17 Robert J. N. Baldock , Noam Bernstein , K. Michael Salerno , Lívia B. Pártay , Gábor Csányi

The homogeneous isotropic Boltzmann equation (HIBE) is a fundamental dynamic model for many applications in thermodynamics, econophysics and sociodynamics. Despite recent hardware improvements, the solution of the Boltzmann equation remains…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pietro Asinari

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

An algorithm for sequential calculation of non-isotropic matrix elements of the collision integral which are necessary for the solution of the non-linear Boltzmann equation by moment method is proposed. Isotropic matrix elements that we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 I. A. Ender , L. A. Bakaleinikov , E. Yu. Flegontova , A. B. Gerasimenko

We present new results building on the conservative deterministic spectral method for the space homogeneous Boltzmann equation developed by Gamba and Tharkabhushaman. This approach is a two-step process that acts on the weak form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Irene M. Gamba , Jeffrey R. Haack

The lattice Boltzmann method is adopted to solve the liquid-vapor phase change problems in this article. By modifying the collision term for the temperature evolution equation, a new thermal lattice Boltzmann model is constructed. As…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Lei Wang , Jiangxu Huang , Kun He

This manuscript focus on an extensive survey with new techniques on the problem of solving the Boltzmann flow by bringing a unified approach to the Cauchy problem to homogeneous kinetic equations with Boltzmann-like collision operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ricardo J. Alonso , Irene M. Gamba

We show the existence of smooth stationary solutions for the inelastic Boltzmann equation under the thermalization induced by a host-medium with a fixed distribution. This is achieved by controlling the Lp-norms, the moments and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Marzia Bisi , Jose A. Carrillo , Bertrand Lods

This paper presents a numerical approximation technique for the Boltzmann equation based on a moment system approximation in velocity dependence and a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element approximation in position dependence. The closure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 M. R. A. Abdelmalik , E. H. van Brummelen

We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jon Wilkening , Johann Rafelski

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-31 Irina Sagert , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Terrance Strother

We develop a highly accurate analytic approximation for small-scale non-cold relic perturbations by solving the collisionless Boltzmann equation in the quasi-stationary regime. The approximation is implemented in CLASSIER (CLASS Integral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Marc Kamionkowski

We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jianfeng Lu , Christian B. Mendl

The Boltzmann equation, a fundamental equation in kinetic theory, serves as a bridge between microscopic particle dynamics and macroscopic continuum mechanics. However, deriving closed macroscopic moment systems from the Boltzmann equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Juntao Huang , Liu Liu , Kunlun Qi , Jiayu Wan