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Ultrafast laser irradiation of solids leads to a thermodynamic nonequilibrium within and between the electron and phonon subsystems of the material. Due to electron-electron and phonon-phonon collisions, both subsystems relax into…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-24 Isabel Klett , Baerbel Rethfeld

Matrix-operator difference-differential equations for dynamics of spectroscopic transitions in 1D multiqubit exchange coupled (para)magnetic and optical systems by strong dipole-photon and dipole-phonon coupling are derived within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 D. Yearchuck , A. Dovlatova , V. Stelmakh

Pauli blocking in Fermi liquids imposes strong phase-space constraints on quasiparticle lifetimes, leading to a well-known quadratic-in-temperature decay rate of quasiparticle modes at low temperatures. In two-dimensional systems, however,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Eric Nilsson , Ulf Gran , Johannes Hofmann

In the present note, we discuss a simple example of a macroscopic quantum many-body system in which the approach to thermal equilibrium from an arbitrary initial state in the microcanonical energy shell is proved without relying on any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-09 Hal Tasaki

The first experimental results of a new quantum method for calculating nuclear temperature and density of fragmenting heavy ions is presented. This method is based on fluctuations in the event quadrupole momentum and fragment multiplicity…

The theory of the electron relaxation in metals excited by an ultrashort optical pump is developed on the basis of the solution of the linearized kinetic equation. The kinetic equation includes both the electron-electron and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-06 V. V. Baranov , V. V. Kabanov

Numerically "exact" methods addressing the dynamics of coupled electron--phonon systems have been intensively developed. Nevertheless, the corresponding results for the electron mobility $\mu_\mathrm{dc}$ are scarce, even for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-12 Veljko Janković

We discuss the possibility of defining an emergent local temperature in extended quantum many-body systems evolving out of equilibrium. For the most simple case of free-fermionic systems, we give an explicit formula for the effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-06 M. Coppola , D. Karevski

When an atom or molecule absorbs a high-energy photon, an electron is emitted with a well-defined energy and a highly-symmetric angular distribution, ruled by energy quantization and parity conservation. These rules seemingly break down…

Simulation results are presented to demonstrate electron temperature and electrical potential development in dilute and cold plasma development. The simulation method is a hybrid method which adopted fluid model for electrons due to their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Zhen Zhang

We present an exact Monte Carlo method to simulate the nonequilibrium dynamics of electron-phonon models in the adiabatic limit of zero phonon frequency. The classical nature of the phonons allows us to sample the equilibrium phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Manuel Weber , James K. Freericks

Electron relaxation in quantum dots is studied theoretically in polar semiconductor materials, with an emphasis put on the phonon-bottleneck problem and electron-LO-phonon coupling. The theory is based on multiphonon states of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kral , Z. Khas

We examine the problem of how excited populations of electrons relax after they have been excited by a pump. We include three of the most important relaxation processes: (i) impurity scattering; (ii) Coulomb scattering; and (iii)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. F. Kemper , O. Abdurazakov , J. K. Freericks

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a successful theory that provides sufficient criteria for ergodicity in quantum many-body systems. Most studies were carried out for Hamiltonians relevant for ultracold quantum gases and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-29 David Jansen , Jan Stolpp , Lev Vidmar , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

A general formalism for the treatment of density fluctuations in Coulomb plasmas is presented and applied to the treatment of temperature relaxation in multi-component quantum plasmas when the separate components (electrons and ions) relax…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Basil Crowley

The previously derived exact evolution equations for density matrix of electron (quantum particle) in phonon field (boson thermostat) are qualitatively analysed. Their statistical interpretation is explained in detail, and their main…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-13 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

A quantum molecular model for fermions is investigated which works with antisymmetrized many-body states composed of localized single-particle wave packets. The application to the description of atomic nuclei and collisions between them…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Feldmeier , J. Schnack

New non-linear, spatially periodic, long wavelength electrostatic modes of an electron fluid oscillating against a motionless ion fluid (Langmuir waves) are given, with viscous and resistive effects included. The cold plasma approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 A. A. Skorupski , E. Infeld

The dynamics of a hot electron cloud in the solar corona-like plasma based on the numerical solution of kinetic equations of weak turbulence theory is considered. Different finite difference schemes are examined to fit the exact analytical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Eduard P. Kontar

The maximum entropy principle is applied to the formal derivation of isothermal, Euler-like equations for semiclassical fermions (electrons and holes) in graphene. After proving general mathematical properties of the equations so obtained,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Luigi Barletti