The Kac model: variations on a theme

DOI10.4171/ICM2022/194MaRDI QIDQ6200713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Bonetto, Eric Carlen, Michael Loss

Publication date 24 March 2024

Published in International Congress of Mathematicians (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/icm2022/194

zbMATH Keywords

entropy decaygraph Laplacianheat reservoirKac modelspectral gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Review text

Summary: The Kac master equation provides a simple framework to understand systems of particles that interact through pairwise collisions. This article is a short review of results, chief among them is the approach to equilibrium for a gas of particles that undergo energy and momentum preserving collisions, as well as results on the entropy and information decay for a one-dimensional Kac system coupled to a reservoir. The principles underlying the Kac master equation can be extended to a Quantum Master Equation (QME) where the time evolution acts on density matrices and is a completely positive trace-preserving map. There is a rich set of equilibrium states and there is also a notion of propagation of chaos that leads to the Quantum Kac-Boltzmann equation. Likewise, the gap of the generator of the QME can be computed in certain special cases. For the entire collection see [Zbl 07816359].

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