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A momentum-space approach to conformal field theory offers a new perspective on cosmological correlators and better reveals the underlying connections to scattering amplitudes. This thesis explores the interplay between integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-10 Francesca Caloro

We investigate the hydrodynamic limit problem for a kinetic flocking model. We develop a GCI-based Hilbert expansion method, and establish rigorously the asymptotic regime from the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with a confining potential in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Teng-Fei Zhang

We consider three classes of linear non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equations having a unique steady state and establish exponential convergence of solutions towards the steady state with explicit (estimates of) decay rates. First,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Dominik Stürzer

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Calogero

We introduce a new diagrammatic approach to perturbative quantum field theory, which we call flow-oriented perturbation theory (FOPT). Within it, Feynman graphs are replaced by strongly connected directed graphs (digraphs). FOPT is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-02 Michael Borinsky , Zeno Capatti , Eric Laenen , Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

The design of particle simulation methods for collisional plasma physics has always represented a challenge due to the unbounded total collisional cross section, which prevents a natural extension of the classical Direct Simulation Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

A deeper understanding of nonequilibrium phenomena is needed to reveal the principles governing natural and synthetic molecular machines. Recent work has shown that when a thermodynamic system is driven from equilibrium then, in the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-30 Patrick R. Zulkowski , David A. Sivak , Gavin E. Crooks , Michael R. DeWeese

The linearized collision operator of the Boltzmann equation for single species can be written as a sum of a positive multiplication operator, the collision frequency, and a compact integral operator. This classical result has more recently,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Niclas Bernhoff

This paper presents a novel Koopman operator formulation for Euler Lagrangian dynamics that employs an implicit generalized momentum-based state space representation, which decouples a known linear actuation channel from state dependent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rajpal Singh , Aditya Singh , Chidre Shravista Kashyap , Jishnu Keshavan

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

We introduce a structured approach to the construction of linear BGK-type collision operators ensuring that the resulting Lattice-Boltzmann methods are stable with respect to a weighted $L^2$-norm. The results hold for particular boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Philipp Otte , Martin Frank

A covariant Fokker-Planck type equation for a simple gas and an equation for the Brownian motion are derived from a relativistic kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation. For the simple gas the dynamic friction four-vector and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Guillermo Chacón--Acosta , Gilberto M. Kremer

We introduce a new scheme to analyze the kinetics of homogeneous nucleation in terms of a global order parameter. Our approach is based on the application of the internal degrees of freedom formalism to derive a kinetic equation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

In strictly axisymmetric configurations of tokamaks, field-line tracing reduces from a three-dimensional ODE system to a two-dimensional one, where Poincar\'e-Bendixson theorem applies and guarantees the nonexistence of chaos. The formulae…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenyin Wei , Liang Liao , Alexander Knieps , Jiankun Hua , Yunfeng Liang , Shaocheng Liu

We consider classical and quantum mechanics for an extended Heisenberg algebra with additional canonical commutation relations for position and momentum coordinates. In our approach this additional noncommutativity is removed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic

This paper presents a new perspective on unifying all fundamental interactions--gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong--based on stochastic processes rather than conventional quantum mechanics. Earlier work by Nelson, Kac and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Partha Ghose

A generalized Fokker-Planck equation is derived to describe particle kinetics in specific situations when the probability transition function (PTF) has a long tail in momentum space. The equation is valid for an arbitrary value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. A. Dubinova , S. A. Trigger

We formulate an effective-description framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems by extending the time-coarse-graining formalism to open systems. Our coarse-graining procedure efficiently removes high-frequency processes which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chang-Woo Lee , Changsuk Noh , Jaewan Kim

Applying gyrokinetic simulations for theoretical turbulence and transport studies to the plasma edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) presents significant challenges. To in particular account for steep density and temperature gradients in the…

We consider the effect of non-reciprocity in a binary mixture of self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions, where a particle of type A reacts differently to a particle of type B than vice versa. Starting from a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jakob Mihatsch , Thomas Ihle