Joint CMU-Pitt Colloquium: The Cauchy problem for the quantum Boltzmann equation for bosons at very low temperature

Friday, April 7, 2017 - 16:00 to 17:00
Frick Fine Arts auditorium 125, University of Pittsburgh
Speaker Information
Irene Gamba
Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Abstract or Additional Information

Abstract:      This model approximates the evolution of quasiparticles in a dilute gas of bosons at very low temperature by a Boltzmann problem with a cubic kinetic transition probability kernel. The solution to this equation couples to the quantum density evolution of the condensate, modeled  by a coupled system of Gross-Pitaevskii and  quantum Boltzmann equation for bosons.     At this first stage, we prove existence and  uniqueness for the quantum Boltzmann model after deriving a priori qualitative properties  including propagation  and creation of polynomial moments, by means of of ODE’s methods in Banach spaces by characterizing an invariant bounded, convex, closed  solutions subset of integrable solutions with bounded mass differentiable in time. We also show the propagation and creation of  Mittag-Leffler moments that characterize the exponential order of the tails decay.     This is a work in collaboration with Ricardo J. Alonso and Minh Binh Tran. 

 

 

Reception: 5pm, Frick Fine Arts cloister