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We report an accessible and robust tool for evaluating the effects of Coulomb collisions on a test particle in a plasma that obeys Maxwell-J\"uttner statistics. The implementation is based on the Beliaev-Budker collision integral which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Konsta Särkimäki , Eero Hirvijoki , Juuso Terävä

In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Alessandro Munafo , Jeffrey R. Haack , Irene M. Gamba , Thierry E. Magin

We have investigated the collisional corrections to the spin polarization pseudo-vector, $\delta\mathcal{P}^{\mu}$, using quantum kinetic theory in Chapman-Enskog expansion. We derive the spin Boltzmann equation incorporating M{\o}ller…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Shuo Fang , Shi Pu

A Monte Carlo program solving Boltzmann equation for partons via cascade method is presented. At presented, only gluon-gluon elastic scattering is included. The scattering cross section is regulated by a medium generated screening mass.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Bin Zhang

A volumetric lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is developed for the particle-resolved direct numerical simulation of thermal particulate flows with conjugate heat transfer. This method is devised as a single-domain approach by applying the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Xiaojie Zhang , Donglei Wang , Qing Li , Rongzong Huang

A Boltzmann machine whose effective "temperature" can be dynamically "cooled" provides a stochastic neural network realization of simulated annealing, which is an important metaheuristic for solving combinatorial or global optimization…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Tong Wu , Huan Zhao , Fanxin Liu , Jing Guo , Han Wang

The simulation of non-equilibrium electron distributions is essential for capturing light-metal interactions and therefore the study of photoabsorption, photocatalysis, laser ablation, and many other phenomena. Current methodologies, such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 M. Uehlein , H. T. Snowden , C. Seibel , T. Held , S. T. Weber , R. J. Maurer , B. Rethfeld

In this paper we present a fully deterministic method for the numerical solution to the Boltzmann equation of rarefied gas dynamics in a bounded domain for multi-scale problems. Periodic, specular reflection and diffusive boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Francis Filbet

We present a new continuous time solver for quantum impurity models such as those relevant to dynamical mean field theory. It is based on a stochastic sampling of a perturbation expansion in the impurity-bath hybridization parameter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Philipp Werner , Armin Comanac , Luca De Medici , Matthias Troyer , Andrew J. Millis

We present a theory for the description of energy relaxation in a nonequilibrium condensate of bosonic particles. The approach is based on coupling to a thermal bath of other particles (e.g., phonons in a crystal, or noncondensed atoms in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 I. G. Savenko , T. C. H. Liew , I. A. Shelykh

$N$-body simulations study the dynamics of $N$ particles under the influence of mutual long-distant forces such as gravity. In practice, $N$-body codes will violate Newton's third law if they use either an approximate Poisson solver or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Qirong Zhu

The existence of stationary distributions in a multicomponent Boltzmann equation using a non-additive kinetic energy composition rule for binary collisions is discussed. It is found that detailed balance is not achieved when -- in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-19 M. Horváth , T. S. Biró

We describe a hybrid Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for simultaneously solving the collisional Boltzmann equation for gas and the collisionless Boltzmann equation for stars and dark matter for problems important to galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin D. Weinberg

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

We show how to accelerate the direct solution of the Boltzmann equation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we choose a method of solution which combines a finite difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

Boltzmann machines (BMs) are powerful energy-based generative models, but their heavy training cost has largely confined practical use to Restricted BMs (RBMs) trained with an efficient learning method called contrastive divergence. More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kentaro Kubo , Hayato Goto

In the paper we study a measure version of the evolutionary nonlinear Boltzmann-type equation in which we admit a random number of collisions of particles. We consider first a stationary model and use two methods to find its fixed points:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 H. Gacki , Ł. Stettner

In this paper, we propose a moment method to numerically solve the Vlasov equations using the framework of the NRxx method developed in [6, 8, 7] for the Boltzmann equation. Due to the same convection term of the Boltzmann equation and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

Direct Monte Carlo simulations of the Enskog-Boltzmann equation for a spatially uniform system of smooth inelastic spheres are performed. In order to reach a steady state, the particles are assumed to be under the action of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. M. Montanero , A. Santos
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