Nonequilibrium statistical field theory for classical particles: Basic kinetic theory

Celia Viermann, Felix Fabis, Elena Kozlikin, Robert Lilow, and Matthias Bartelmann
Phys. Rev. E 91, 062120 – Published 16 June 2015

Abstract

Recently Mazenko and Das and Mazenko [Phys. Rev. E 81, 061102 (2010); J. Stat. Phys. 149, 643 (2012); J. Stat. Phys. 152, 159 (2013); Phys. Rev. E 83, 041125 (2011)] introduced a nonequilibrium field-theoretical approach to describe the statistical properties of a classical particle ensemble starting from the microscopic equations of motion of each individual particle. We use this theory to investigate the transition from those microscopic degrees of freedom to the evolution equations of the macroscopic observables of the ensemble. For the free theory, we recover the continuity and Jeans equations of a collisionless gas. For a theory containing two-particle interactions in a canonical perturbation series, we find the macroscopic evolution equations to be described by the Born-Bogoliubov-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy with a truncation criterion depending on the order in perturbation theory. This establishes a direct link between the classical and the field-theoretical approaches to kinetic theory that might serve as a starting point to investigate kinetic theory beyond the classical limits.

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  • Received 11 November 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.062120

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Celia Viermann, Felix Fabis, Elena Kozlikin, Robert Lilow, and Matthias Bartelmann

  • Heidelberg University, Zentrum für Astronomie, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Philosophenweg 12, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Vol. 91, Iss. 6 — June 2015

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