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We consider a linear Boltzmann equation that arises in a model for quantum friction. It describes a particle that is slowed down by the emission of bosons. We study the stochastic process generated by this Boltzmann equation and we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roland Bauerschmidt , Wojciech de Roeck , Jürg Fröhlich

The dynamics of a system composed of elastic hard particles confined by an isotropic harmonic potential are studied. In the low-density limit, the Boltzmann equation provides an excellent description, and the system does not reach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria , D. Guéry-Odelin , E. Trizac

For low density gases the validity of the Boltzmann transport equation is well established. The central object is the one-particle distribution function, $f$, which in the Boltzmann-Grad limit satisfies the Boltzmann equation. Grad and,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Herbert Spohn

We consider an approximation of the linearised equation of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation that describes the distribution of quasiparticles in a dilute gas of bosons at low temperature. The corresponding collision frequency is neither…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Miguel Escobedo , Minh-Binh Tran

The frequency dependent phonon Boltzmann equation is transformed to an integral equation over the irreducible part of the Brillouin zone. Simultaneous diagonalization of the collision kernel of that equation and a symmetry crystal class…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-19 Laurent Chaput

We study the fluctuations of the phonon modes in a one-dimensional chain of anharmonic oscillators where the deterministic Hamiltonian dynamics is perturbed by random exchanges of momentum between nearest neighbor particles. There are three…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kohei Hayashi , Stefano Olla

Intrinsic fluctuations around the solution of the lattice Boltzmann equation are described or modeled by addition of a white Gaussian noise source. For stationary states a fluctuation-dissipation theorem relates the variance of the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 J. W. Dufty , M. H. Ernst

The description of nonequilibrium states of solids in a simplified manner is a challenge in the field of ultrafast dynamics. Here, the phonon thermalization in solids through the three-phonon scatterings is investigated by solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Shota Ono

A new transient effective theory of the relativistic Boltzmann equation is derived for locally momentum-anisotropic systems. In the expansion of the distribution function around a local "quasi-equilibrium" state a non-hydrodynamic dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Dennis Bazow , Mauricio Martinez , Ulrich W. Heinz

The Einstein relation, relating the steady state fluctuation properties to the linear response to a perturbation, is considered for steady states of stochastic models with a finite state space. We show how an Einstein relation always holds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hanney , M. R. Evans

In the paper, we develop spectral theory to analyze the sharp asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Boltzmann equation around global Maxwellians in a three-dimensional infinite layer $\mathbb{R}^2\times (-1,1)$. The isothermal diffuse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Hongxu Chen , Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

We consider the long time evolution of a quantum particle weakly interacting with a phonon field. We show that in the weak coupling limit the Wigner distribution of the electron density matrix converges to the solution of the linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Laszlo Erdos

The Boltzmann equation is a fundamental equation in kinetic theory that describes the motion of rarefied gases. In this study, we examine the Boltzmann equation within a $C^1$ bounded domain, subject to a large external potential $\Phi(x)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jong-in Kim , Donghyun Lee

We derive the continuum equations and boundary conditions governing phonon-mediated heat transfer in the limit of small but finite mean free path from asymptotic solution of the linearized Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Jean-Philippe M. Péraud , Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou

We consider the non-equilibrium dynamics of a molecular level interacting with local phonon modes in the case of a strong polaronic shift which prevents a perturbative treatment of the problem. Instead, we find that in an adiabatic regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mozyrsky , M. B. Hastings , I. Martin

The notion of distance between a global Maxwellian function and an arbitrary solution $f$ (with the same total density $\rho$ at the fixed moment $t$) of Boltzmann equation is introduced. In this way we essentially generalize the important…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lev Sakhnovich

We study the evolution in equilibrium of the fluctuations for the conserved quantities of a chain of anharmonic oscillators in the hyperbolic space-time scaling. Boundary conditions are determined by applying a constant tension at one side,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Stefano Olla , Lu Xu

Asymptotic freedom is a feature of quantum chromodynamics that guarantees its well-posedeness. We derive an analog of asymptotic freedom enabling unconditional stability of lattice Boltzmann simulation of hydrodynamics. For the lattice…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Seyed Ali Hosseini , Ilya Karlin

We develop a rigorous theory of hard-sphere dynamics in the kinetic regime, away from thermal equilibrium. In the low density limit, the empirical density obeys a law of large numbers and the dynamics is governed by the Boltzmann equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

In this work, a lattice Boltzmann scheme is developed for numerical solution of the phonon Boltzmann equation under Callaway's dual relaxation model in the hydrodynamic limit. Through a Chapman-Enskog expansion to the lattice Boltzmann…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Yangyu Guo , Moran Wang
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