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Using extensive molecular dynamics simulations we explore the fine-grained phase space structure of systems with long-range interactions. We find that if the initial phase space particle distribution has no holes, the final stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-22 Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

We derive a collisionless kinetic theory for an ensemble of molecules undergoing nonholonomic rolling dynamics. We demonstrate that the existence of nonholonomic constraints leads to problems in generalizing the standard methods of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-26 Darryl D. Holm , Vakhtang Putkaradze , Cesare Tronci

Starting from kinetic theory, we obtain a nonlinear dissipative formalism describing the nonequilibrium evolution of scalar colored particles coupled selfconsistently to nonabelian classical gauge fields. The link between the one-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Peralta-Ramos , E. Calzetta

This paper provides an introduction to some stochastic models of lattice gases out of equilibrium and a discussion of results of various kinds obtained in recent years. Although these models are different in their microscopic features, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona--Lasinio , C. Landim

In this paper, we investigate the kinetic stability of classical, collisional plasma - that is, plasma in which the mean-free-path $\lambda$ of constituent particles is short compared to the length scale $L$ over which fields and bulk…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Archie F. A. Bott , Steven C. Cowley , Alexander A. Schekochihin

In this paper, a detailed analysis on normal modes of the linearized Hermite collision operator is presented, which follows from linearizing spin Boltzmann equation for massive fermions proposed in \cite{Weickgenannt:2021cuo} with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-23 Jin Hu

The spectral problem is studied associated with Maxwell-Boltzmann equations describing collisionless plasma. Formula for instability index is obtained and effective conditions of two-stream instability are given.

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This paper addresses the linear and nonlinear three-dimensional propagation of an electron wave in a collisionless plasma that may be inhomogeneous, nonstationary, anisotropic and even weakly magnetized. The wave amplitude, together with…

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The real time evolution of field condensates with soft length scales k^{-1}>(eT)^{-1} is solved in hot scalar electrodynamics, with a view towards understanding relaxational phenomena in the QGP and the electroweak plasma. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Daniel Boyanovsky , Hector J. de Vega , Richard Holman , S. Prem Kumar , Robert D. Pisarski

The paper assesses stationary probability distributions in out of equilibrium systems. In the phenomenology proposed, no free energy can be well defined. Fluctuations of Landau free energy couplings arise when the intrinsic chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-31 Guillaume Attuel

We complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, or using projection operator technics or a quasilinear theory, a general kinetic equation can be derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In this Letter, we investigate the stability of the statistical equilibrium of spherically symmetric collisionless self-gravitating systems. By calculating the second variation of the entropy, we find that perturbations of the relevant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-08 Ping He , Dong-Biao Kang

We provide a short historic of the early development of kinetic theory in plasma physics and synthesize the basic kinetic equations describing the evolution of systems with long-range interactions derived in Paper I. We describe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-12 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We discuss the dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with weak long-range interactions. Generically, these systems experience a violent collisionless relaxation in the Vlasov regime leading to a (usually) non-Boltzmannian quasi stationary…

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A scaling theory of long-wavelength electrostatic turbulence in a magnetised, weakly collisional plasma (e.g., ITG turbulence) is proposed, with account taken both of the nonlinear advection of the perturbed particle distribution by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 A. A. Schekochihin , J. T. Parker , E. G. Highcock , P. J. Dellar , W. Dorland , G. W. Hammett

We introduce a generalised relaxation-time-approximation form of the collision term in the Boltzmann kinetic equation that allows for using different relaxation times for elastic and inelastic collisions. The efficacy of the proposed…

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-06 Yurii Ignat'ev

We study the phase space dynamics of cosmological models in the theoretical formulations of non-minimal metric-torsion couplings with a scalar field, and investigate in particular the critical points which yield stable solutions exhibiting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-18 Arshdeep Singh Bhatia , Sourav Sur

The dynamics of electron-plasma waves are described at arbitrary collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The description is based on a Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the velocity dependence of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 R. Jorge , P. Ricci , S. Brunner , S. Gamba , V. Konovets , N. F. Loureiro , L. M. Perrone , N. Teixeira