Bose-Einstein condensation in a hyperbolic model for the Kompaneets equation

DOI10.1137/15M1054730zbMATH Open1362.35308arXiv1512.06950MaRDI QIDQ2834572FDOQ2834572

Gautam Iyer, Joshua Ballew, Robert L. Pego

Publication date: 23 November 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In low-density or high-temperature plasmas, Compton scattering is the dominant process responsible for energy transport. Kompaneets in 1957 derived a non-linear degenerate parabolic equation for the photon energy distribution. In this paper we consider a simplified model obtained by neglecting diffusion of the photon number density in a particular way. We obtain a non-linear hyperbolic PDE with a position-dependent flux, which permits a one-parameter family of stationary entropy solutions to exist. We completely describe the long-time dynamics of each non-zero solution, showing that it approaches some non-zero stationary solution. While the total number of photons is formally conserved, if initially large enough it necessarily decreases after finite time through an out-flux of photons with zero energy. This corresponds to formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate, whose mass we show can only increase with time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06950

zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensateKompaneets equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L04) PDEs in connection with astronomy and astrophysics (35Q85)

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