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In this note we study Boltzmann's collision kernel for inverse power law interactions $U_s(r)=1/r^{s-1}$ for $s>2$ in dimension $ d=3 $. We prove the limit of the non-cutoff kernel to the hard-sphere kernel and give precise asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jin Woo Jang , Bernhard Kepka , Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez

It is a fundamental problem in mathematical physics to derive macroscopic transport equations from microscopic models. In this paper we derive the linear Boltzmann equation in the low-density limit of a damped quantum Lorentz gas for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jory Griffin

We prove the appearance of an explicit lower bound on the solution to the full Boltzmann equation in the torus for a broad family of collision kernels including in particular long-range interaction models, under the assumption of some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Clément Mouhot

We derive the 3D spatially homogeneous Boltzmann's equation with moderately soft potentials and singular angular interaction, from an interacting particles system. The collision kernel is of the form $B(z,\sigma)=|z|^{\gamma}b\left(…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Samir Salem

We consider an inverse problem for the nonlinear Boltzmann equation near the equilibrium. Our goal is to determine the collision kernel in the Boltzmann equation from the knowledge of the Albedo operator. Our approach relies on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Li Li , Zhimeng Ouyang

In this paper, we study the decoherence of a wave described by the solution to a Schroedinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to have slowly decaying correlations. The main tool to analyze…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Christophe Gomez

We prove the existence of a class of large global scattering solutions of Boltzmann's equation with constant collision kernel in two dimensions. These solutions are found for $L^2$ perturbations of an underlying initial data which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Thomas Chen , Ryan Denlinger , Nataša Pavlović

Variational solutions of the Boltzmann equation usually rely on the concept of linear response. We extend the variational approach for tight-binding models at high entropies to a regime far beyond linear response. We analyze both weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephan Mandt

We consider the quantum Boltzmann equation, which describes the growth of the condensate, or in other words, models the interaction between excited atoms and a condensate. In this work, the full form of Bogoliubov dispersion law is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Toan T. Nguyen , Minh-Binh Tran

We study the Cauchy problem for a kinetic equation arising in the weak turbulence theory for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We define suitable concepts of weak and mild solutions and prove local and global well posedness…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Miguel Escobedo , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We consider random Schr\"odinger equations on $\bZ^d$ for $d\ge 3$ with identically distributed random potential. Denote by $\lambda$ the coupling constant and $\psi_t$ the solution with initial data $\psi_0$. The space and time variables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo Erdos , Manfred Salmhofer , Horng-Tzer Yau

We investigate the Boltzmann equation with spatial smearing, diffusive boundary conditions, and Lions' collision kernel. Both, the physical as well as the velocity space, are assumed to be bounded. Existence and uniqueness of a stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jörg-Uwe Löbus

In this article, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the continuous coagulation equation with collisional breakage for a class of unbounded collision kernels and distribution function. The collision kernels and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Prasanta Kumar Barik , Ankik Kumar Giri

We study the ground-state integral equation of the quantum lattice nonlinear Schr\"odinger model -- equivalently the isotropic Heisenberg XXX spin chain with spin $s = -1$ -- in the weak-coupling limit. Unlike the continuous Lieb--Liniger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Felipe Taha Sant'Ana

In this paper we study the asymptotic phase space energy distribution of solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to be with slowly decaying correlations. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Christophe Gomez

We derive the Boltzmann equation and the collision kernel for massive spin-1/2 particles, using the Wigner-function formalism and employing an expansion in powers of $\hbar$. The phase space is enlarged to include a variable related to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza , Xin-li Sheng , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We provide a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation as the mesoscopic limit of systems of hard spheres, or Newtonian particles interacting via a short-range potential, as the number of particles $N$ goes to infinity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Benjamin Texier

We describe space--time fluctuations by means of small fluctuations of the metric on a given background metric. From a minimally coupled Klein--Gordon equation we obtain within a weak-field approximation up to second order and an averaging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ertan Göklü , Claus Lämmerzahl

The collisionless Boltzmann equation, also called free-streaming, is a convenient approximation. It is rather simple to implement numerically, and and it is effective at reducing the irregularities of rough initial conditions. It can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-04 Leonardo Tinti

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal