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The non-equilibrium quantum field dynamics is usually described in the closed-time-path formalism. The initial state correlations are introduced into the generating functional by non-local source terms. We propose a functional approach to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Q. Wang , K. Redlich , H. Stöcker , W. Greiner

We develop a flexible quasiparticle theory of transport coefficients of hot hadronic matter at finite baryon density. We begin with a hadronic quasiparticle model which includes a scalar and a vector mean field. Quasiparticle energies and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Albright , J. I. Kapusta

Quite a many electron transport problems in condensed matter physics are analyzed with a quasiparticle Boltzmann equation. For sufficiently slowly varying weak external potentials it can be derived from the basic equations of quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-12 F. X. Bronold , F. Willert

A model of scalar quarks and scalar gluons is used to derive transport equations for quarks and gluons. In particular, the collision integral is studied. The self-energy diagrams are organized according to the number of loops. A generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Isert , S. P. Klevansky

We derive from first principles, using non-equilibrium field theory, the quantum Boltzmann equations that describe the dynamics of flavor oscillations, collisions, and a time-dependent mass matrix in the early universe. Working to leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Christopher Lee , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Sean Tulin

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

We present numerical solutions of the semi-classical Boltzmann-Vlasov equation for fermion particle-antiparticle production by strong electric fields in boost-invariant coordinates in (1+1) and (3+1) dimensional QED. We compare the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 John F. Dawson , B. Mihaila , F. Cooper

We derive a semiclassical transport equation for fermions propagating in the presence of a CP-violating planar bubble wall at a first order electroweak phase transition. Starting from the Kadanoff-Baym (KB) equation for the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kimmo Kainulainen , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt , Steffen Weinstock

The late-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems is organized in distinct dynamical universality classes, characterized by their conservation laws and thus by their emergent hydrodynamic transport. Here, we study transport in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Philip Zechmann , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

A-B stacked bilayer graphene has massive electron and hole-like excitations with zero gap in the nearest-neighbor hopping approximation. In equilibrium, the quasiparticle occupation approximately follows the usual Fermi-Dirac distribution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Dung X. Nguyen , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon

A density matrix theory of electron transport and optical gain in quantum cascade lasers in an external magnetic field is formulated. Starting from the general quantum kinetic treatment, we describe the intra- and inter-period electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivana Savic , Nenad Vukmirovic , Zoran Ikonic , Dragan Indjin , Robert W. Kelsall , Paul Harrison , Vitomir Milanovic

A quantum kinetic formalism is developed to study the dynamical interplay of quantum and statistical-kinetic properties of non-equilibrium multi-parton systems produced in high-energy QCD processes. The approach provides the means to follow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Klaus Geiger

The heavy quarks present in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can act as a probe of relativistic heavy ion collisions as they retain the memory of their interaction history. In a previous study, a stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation (SSE) has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Zichao Li , Xingbo Zhao

We develop a Boltzmann-type quantum transport theory for interacting fermion and scalar fields including both flavour and particle-antiparticle mixing. Our formalism is based on the coherent quasiparticle approximation (cQPA) for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Christian Fidler , Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

Beyond the Standard Model physics is required to explain both dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the universe, the latter possibly generated during a strong first-order electroweak phase transition. While many proposed models tackle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-17 Simone Biondini , Philipp Schicho , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen

We extend the standard model to a scalar-assisted vector-like fermion model to realize electroweak baryogenesis. The extended Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, due to the mixing among the vector-like quark and the standard model quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu

We develop a new semiclassical approach, which starts with the density matrix given by the Euclidean time path integral with fixed coinciding endpoints, and proceed by identifying classical (minimal Euclidean action) path, to be referred to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 M. A. Escobar-Ruiz , E. Shuryak , A. V. Turbiner

We study the kinetic theory of a weakly interacting quantum field. Assuming a state that is close to homogeneous and stationary, we derive a closed kinetic equation for the rate of change of the occupation numbers, perturbatively in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xu-Yao Hu , Vladimir Rosenhaus

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

Collective orders and photo-induced phase transitions in quantum matter can evolve on timescales which are orders of magnitude slower than the femtosecond processes related to electronic motion in the solid. Quantum Boltzmann equations can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Antonio Picano , Jiajun Li , Martin Eckstein