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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

Boundary effects are central to the dynamics of the dilute particles governed by Boltzmann equation. In this paper, we study both the diffuse reflection and the specular reflection boundary value problems for Boltzmann equation with soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Shuangqian Liu , Xiongfeng Yang

In this article, I study the diffusive behavior for a quantum test particle interacting with a dilute background gas. The model I begin with is a reduced picture for the test particle dynamics given by a quantum linear Boltzmann equation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jeremy Clark

We study a fuzzy Boltzmann equation, where collisions are delocalised and modulated by a spatial kernel. We show that as the spatial kernel converges to a delta distribution, the solutions to these equations converge to renormalised…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Matthias Erbar , Zihui He

We report partial progress on the weak coupling limit behavior of observables for the periodic quantum Lorentz gas. Our results indicate that for certain observables, the limit behavior is trivial and can be described via a transport…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Massimiliano Gubinelli , Vishnu Sanjay

The Landau equation and the Boltzmann equation are connected through the limit of grazing collisions. This has been proved rigorously for certain families of Boltzmann operators concentrating on grazing collisions. In this contribution, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Corentin Le Bihan , Raphael Winter

We consider the motion of a particle governed by a weakly random Hamiltonian flow. We identify temporal and spatial scales on which the particle trajectory converges to a spatial Brownian motion. The main technical issue in the proof is to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Komorowski , L. Ryzhik

A Boltzmann equation, used to describe the evolution of the density function of a gas of photons interacting by Compton scattering with electrons at low density and non relativistic equilibrium, is considered. A truncation of the very…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 E. Cortés , M. Escobedo

We consider the weak coupling limit for a quantum system consisting of a small subsystem and reservoirs. It is known rigorously since [Dav74] that the Heisenberg evolution restricted to the small system converges in an appropriate sense to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-21 Jan Derezinski , Wojciech De Roeck

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

This paper is concerned with the Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition. We construct a unique global solution and obtain its large time asymptotic behavior in the case that the initial data is close enough to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Yan Guo , Shuangqian Liu

We present a rigorous analysis of the Landau-Zener linear-in-time term crossing problem for quadratic-nonlinear systems relevant to the coherent association of ultracold atoms in degenerate quantum gases. Our treatment is based on an exact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-11-01 A. Ishkhanyan , B. Joulakian , K. -A. Suominen

We review the quantum version of the linear Boltzmann equation, which describes in a non-perturbative fashion, by means of scattering theory, how the quantum motion of a single test particle is affected by collisions with an ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

It is expected in physics that the homogeneous quantum Boltzmann equation with Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein statistics and with Maxwell-Boltzmann operator (neglecting effect of the statistics) for the weak coupled gases will converge to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Ling-Bing He , Xuguang Lu , Mario Pulvirenti

We rewrite the Klein-Gordon (KG) equation in an arbitrary space-time transforming it into a generalized Schr\"odinger equation. Then we take the weak field limit and show that this equation has some differences with the traditional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-30 Omar Gallegos , Tonatiuh Matos

We consider the Schr\"odinger equation with a time-independent weakly random potential of a strength $\epsilon\ll 1$, with Gaussian statistics. We prove that when the initial condition varies on a scale much larger than the correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Thomas Chen , Tomasz Komorowski , Lenya Ryzhik

We use a careful treatment of time-dependent wave-mechanical scattering to determine the conditions under which a dilute, non-degenerate quantum gas can obey a Boltzmann equation. If the gas possesses weak long-range coherence, such as may…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-08 L. Rico-Pérez , J. R. Anglin

We consider a test particle moving in a random distribution of obstacles in the plane, under the action of a uniform magnetic field, orthogonal to the plane. We show that, in a weak coupling limit, the particle distribution behaves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matteo Marcozzi , Alessia Nota