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Chapman-Enskog theory for nearly integrable quantum gases
by Maciej Łebek, Miłosz Panfil
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Maciej Łebek |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23209v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-10-31 12:34 |
| Submitted by: | Łebek, Maciej |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
Integrable systems feature an infinite number of conserved charges and on hydrodynamic scales are described by generalised hydrodynamics (GHD). This description breaks down when the integrability is weakly broken and sufficiently large space-time-scales are probed. The emergent hydrodynamics depends then on the charges conserved by the perturbation. We focus on nearly-integrable Galilean-invariant systems with conserved particle number, momentum and energy. Basing on the Boltzmann collision approach to integrability breaking we describe dynamics of the system with GHD equation supplemented with collision term. The limit of large space-time-scales is addressed using Chapman-Enskog expansion adapted to the GHD equation. We recover Navier-Stokes equations and find transport coefficients: viscosity and thermal conductivity, which are given by generalizations of Chapman-Enskog integral equations. We also observe that the diffusion of quasiparticles introduces an additional small parameter enriching the structure of the expansion as compared to the standard Boltzmann equation.
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