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We determine quantum precision limits for estimation of damping constants and temperature of lossy bosonic channels. A direct application would be the use of light for estimation of the absorption and the temperature of a transparent slab.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jiaxuan Wang , Luiz Davidovich , Girish Saran Agarwal

Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 Florian Thüroff , Christoph A. Weber , Erwin Frey

The resolution of any spectroscopic or interferometric experiment is ultimately limited by the total time a particle is interrogated. We here demonstrate the first molecular fountain, a development which permits hitherto unattainably long…

2D profiles of electron density and neutral temperature are inferred from multi-delay Coherence Imaging Spectroscopy data of divertor plasmas using a non-linear inversion technique. The inference is based on imaging the spectral…

The Boltzmann equation without an angular cutoff is considered when the initial data is a small perturbation of a global Maxwellian with an algebraic decay in the velocity variable. A well-posedness theory in the perturbative framework is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Ricardo Alonso , Yoshinori Morimoto , Weiran Sun , Tong Yang

We consider the velocity distribution for a granular gas of inelastic hard spheres described by the Boltzmann equation. We investigate both the free of forcing case and a system heated by a stochastic force. We propose a new method to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Coppex , Michel Droz , Jaroslaw Piasecki , Emmanuel Trizac

We consider fixed points of steady solutions and flow directions using the boson Boltzmann equation that is a one-dimensionally reduced kinetic equation after the angular integration. With an elastic collision integral of the two-to-two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Murase , Shi Pu

The visible spectrum of H3+ is studied using high-sensitivity action spectroscopy in a cryogenic radiofrequency multipole trap. Advances are made to measure the weak ro-vibrational transitions from the lowest rotational states of H3+ up to…

We apply a Bloch-bands approach to the analysis of pulsed optical standing wave diffractive elements in optics and interferometry with ultracold atoms. We verify our method by comparison to a series of experiments with Bose-Einstein…

The Doppler effect, the shift in the frequency of sound due to motion, is present in both classical gases and quantum superfluids. Here, we perform an in-situ, minimally destructive measurement, of the persistent current in a ring-shaped,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-07 A. Kumar , N. Anderson , W. D. Phillips , S. Eckel , G. K. Campbell , S. Stringari

Consider the linear Boltzmann equation of radiative transfer in a half-space, with constant scattering coefficient $\sigma$. Assume that, on the boundary of the half-space, the radiation intensity satisfies the Lambert (i.e. diffuse)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Claude Bardos , François Golse , Iván Moyano

Accurate absorption models for gases at high pressure and temperature support advanced optical combustion diagnostics and aid in the study of harsh planetary atmospheres. Developing and validating absorption models for these applications…

We present the first nonperturbative numerical calculations of the nonrelativistic hydrogen spectrum as predicted by first-quantized electrodynamics with nonlinear Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations. We also show rigorous upper and lower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Holly Carley , Michael K. -H. Kiessling

Derivation of the lattice Boltzmann method from the continuous kinetic theory [X. He and L. S. Luo, {\it Phys. Rev. E} {\bf 55}, R6333 (1997); X. Shan and X. He, {\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 80}, 65 (1998)] is extended in order to obtain…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-07 Santosh Ansumali , Iliya V. Karlin

We consider the 3D Boltzmann equation for the Maxwellian particle and soft potential with an angular cutoff. We prove sharp global well-posedness with initial data small in the scaling-critical space. The solution also remains in $L^{1}$ if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Xuwen Chen , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

A simplified relativistic kinetic theory for gases with internal degrees of freedom, based on a BGK-type collision term, is considered. First the Boltzmann equation is rewritten in tetrad form and then thermal coefficients are determined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Philip Semrén , Michael Bradley , João M. S. Oliveira , M. Piedade Machado Ramos

This paper gives the first full proof of the justification of the linear Boltzmann equation from an underlying long range particle evolution. We suppose that a tagged particle is interacting with a background via a two body potential that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Matthew Egginton , Florian Theil

Let L be an ample holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex Hermitian manifold X. Any fixed smooth Hermitian metric on L induces a Hilbert space structure on the space of global holomorphic sections with values in the k:th tensor power…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert Berman

A rigorous homogenization theory is derived to describe the effective admittivity of cell suspensions. A new formula is reported for dilute cases that gives the frequency-dependent effective admittivity with respect to the membrane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-07 Habib Ammari , Josselin Garnier , Laure Giovangigli , Wenjia Jing , Jin-Keun Seo

The linear stability analysis of the Boltzmann kinetic equation has recently garnered research interest due to its potential applications in space exploration, where rarefaction effects can render the Navier Stokes equations invalid. Since…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Lei Wu