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In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Benjamin Graille , Thierry E. Magin , Marc Massot

Boltzmann equation requires some alternative simpler kinetic model like BGK to replace the collision term. Such a kinetic model which replaces the Boltzmann collision integral should preserve the basic properties and characteristics of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-31 Ajit Kumar Mahendra , Ram Kumar Singh

We introduce a parafermionic version of the Jaynes Cummings Hamiltonian, by coupling $k$ Fock parafermions (nilpotent of order $F$) to a 1D harmonic oscillator, representing the interaction with a single mode of the electromagnetic field.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alessandro Nigro , Marco Gherardi

We consider the bosonic Fock space over the Hilbert space of transversal vector fields in three dimensions. This space carries a canonical representation of the group of rotations. For a certain class of operators in Fock space we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 David Hasler , Ira Herbst

In the present work, a consistent Lagrangian model that encapsulates fully kinetic ions and gyrokinetic electrons for solar wind electromagnetic turbulence is formulated. Using a consistent method, where both electrons and protons are…

At higher altitudes, for high temperature gases, for instance near space shuttles moving at hypersonic speed, not only mechanical collisions are affecting the gas flow, but also chemical reactions have an impact on such hypersonic flows. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Niclas Bernhoff

Numerical techniques for discretization of velocity space in continuum kinetic calculations are described. An efficient spectral collocation method is developed for the speed coordinate - the radius in velocity space - employing a novel set…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Matt Landreman , Darin R. Ernst

We give a unitary irreducible representation of the proper Poincar\'e group that leads to an operational version of the classical relativistic dynamics of a massive spinless particle. Unlike quantum mechanics, in this operational theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 A. D. Bermúdez Manjarres

A general method of the Foldy-Wouthyusen (FW) transformation for relativistic particles of arbitrary spin in strong external fields has been developed. The use of the found transformation operator is not restricted by any definite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Alexander J. Silenko

We present the Feynman rules for leading-twist gauge-invariant quark and gluon operators with an arbitrary number of total derivatives and applicable to any order in perturbation theory. This generalizes previous results and constitutes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 G. Somogyi , S. Van Thurenhout

Fermionic Molecular Dynamics (FMD) models a system of fermions by means of many-body states which are composed of antisymmetrized products of single-particle states. These consist of one or several Gaussians localized in coordinate and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Feldmeier , T. Neff , R. Roth , J. Schnack

Using the Langevin approach and the multiscale technique, a kinetic theory of the time and space nonlocal fluctuations in the collisional plasma is constructed. In local equilibrium a generalized version of the Callen-Welton theorem is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Belyi

A numerically efficient framework that takes into account the effect of the Coulomb collision operator at arbitrary collisionalities is introduced. Such model is based on the expansion of the distribution function on a Hermite-Laguerre…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 R. Jorge , P. Ricci , N. F. Loureiro

A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Huasheng Xie

I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Rosu

We develop a conservative phase-space grid-adaptivity strategy for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in a planar geometry. The velocity-space grid is normalized to the thermal speed and shifted by the bulk-fluid velocity. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 William Tsubasa Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei Simakov , Steven Anderson

The methods of mode decomposition and Fourier analysis of classical and quantum fields on curved spacetimes previously available mainly for the scalar field on Friedman- Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetimes are extended to arbitrary vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Zhirayr G. Avetisyan

Based on classical transport theory, we present a general set of covariant equations describing the dynamics of mean fields and their statistical fluctuations in a non-Abelian plasma in or out-of-equilibrium. A procedure to obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel F. Litim , Cristina Manuel

The first nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations obtained using a moment approach based on the Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the distribution function are presented, implementing advanced models for the collision operator. Turbulence in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 A. C. D. Hoffmann , B. J. Frei , P. Ricci

The Finslerian post-Lorentzian kinematic transformations can explicitly be obtained under uni-directional breakdown of spatial isotropy, provided that the requirement that the relativistic unit hypersurface (indicatrix or mass shell) be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Asanov