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Counterexamples of Boltzmann's equation

2006/08/31 by Chen, C. Y.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0608712

Abstract

To test kinetic theories, simple and practical setups are proposed. It turns out that these setups cannot be treated by Boltzmann's equation. An alternative method, called the path-integral approach, is then employed and a number of ready-for-verification results are obtained.

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