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We review and extend the theory of the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensation in weakly interacting atomic gases. We present in a unified way both the semiclassical theory as well as the full quantum theory. This is achieved by deriving a…

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We derive minimal discrete models of the Boltzmann equation consistent with equilibrium thermodynamics, and which recover correct hydrodynamics in arbitrary dimensions. A simple analytical procedure of constructing the equilibrium for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Santosh Ansumali , Iliya V. Karlin , Hans Christian Öttinger

The study of vortex dynamics using a variational formulation has an extensive history and a rich literature. The standard Hamiltonian function that describes the dynamics of interacting point vortices of constant strength is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-20 Nabil M. Khalifa , Haithem E. Taha

Kinetic and hydrodynamic theories are widely employed for describing the collective behaviour of active matter systems. At the fluctuating level, these have been obtained from explicit coarse-graining procedures in the limit where each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Ouassim Feliachi , Marc Besse , Cesare Nardini , Julien Barré

Using the formalism of the classical nucleation theory, we derive a novel kinetic equation for the size and composition distribution of an ensemble of aqueous organic aerosols, evolving via nucleation and concomitant chemical aging. This…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein

A kinetic model is proposed for rarefied flows of molecular gas with rotational and temperature-dependent vibrational degrees of freedom. The model reduces to the Boltzmann equation for monatomic gas when the energy exchange between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Qi Li , Lei Wu

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang

Fractional kinetic theory plays a vital role in describing anomalous diffusion in terms of complex dynamics generating semi-Markovian processes. Recently, the variational principle and associated Levy Ansatz have been proposed in order to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-15 Sumiyoshi Abe

Using a covariant formalism, we construct a chiral kinetic theory Lorentz invariant to order $\mathcal O(\hbar)$ which includes collisions. We find a new contribution to the particle number current due to the side jumps required by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Jing-Yuan Chen , Dam T. Son , Mikhail A. Stephanov

In the article correct method for the kinetic Boltzmann equation asymptotic solution is formulated, the Hilbert's and Enskog's methods are discussed. The equations system of multicomponent non-equilibrium gas dynamics is derived, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-27 S. A. Serov , S. S. Serova

We show how kinetic theory, the statistics of classical particles obeying Newtonian dynamics, can be formulated as a field theory. The field theory can be organized to produce a self-consistent perturbation theory expansion in an effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shankar P. Das , Gene F. Mazenko

Random exchange kinetic models are widely employed to describe the conservative dynamics of large interacting systems. Due to their simplicity and generality, they are quite popular in several fields, from statistical mechanics to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Dario Lucente , Marco Baldovin , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani

Plasma physics give an example of physical system of particles with the long range interaction. At small velocity of particles we can consider the plasma approximately as a system of particles with the Coulomb interaction. The Coulomb…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 P. A. Andreev

The unshielded nature of gravity means that stellar systems are inherently inhomogeneous. As a result, stars do not move in straight lines. This obvious fact severely complicates the kinetic theory of stellar systems because position and…

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We develop a general kinetic theory framework to describe the hydrodynamics of strongly interacting, nonequilibrium quantum systems in which integrability is weakly broken, leaving a few residual conserved quantities. This framework is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The nonextensive kinetic theory for degenerate quantum gases is discussed in the general relativistic framework. By incorporating nonadditive modifications in the collisional term of the relativistic Boltzmann equation and entropy current,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 A. P. Santos , R. Silva , J. S. Alcaniz , J. A. S. Lima

Homogeneous Boltzmann-type equations are an established tool for modelling interacting multi-agent systems in sociophysics by means of the principles of statistical mechanics and kinetic theory. A customary implicit assumption is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-27 Andrea Tosin

Nonlinear kinetic equations are reviewed for a wide audience of specialists and postgraduate students in physics, mathematical physics, material science, chemical engineering and interdisciplinary research. Contents: The Boltzmann equation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We develop a quantum kinetic theory for QCD, which incorporates all leading order collision terms. At lowest order in gradient expansion, it reproduces the spin-averaged Boltzmann equation with both elastic and inelastic collisions. At next…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Shu Lin