Kinetic equation for strongly interacting dense Fermi systems

Abstract

We review the non-relativistic Green's-function approach to the kinetic equations for Fermi liquids far from equilibrium. The emphasis is on the consistent treatment of the off-shell motion between collisions and on the non-instant and non-local picture of binary collisions. The resulting kinetic equation is of the Boltzmann type, and it represents an interpolation between the theory of transport in metals and the theory of moderately dense gases. The free motion of particles is renormalised by various mean field and mass corrections in the spirit of Landau's quasiparticles in metals. The collisions are non-local in the spirit of Enskog's theory of non-ideal gases. The collisions are moreover non-instant, a feature which is absent in the theory of gases, but which is shown to be important for dense Fermi systems. In spite of its formal complexity, the presented theory has a simple implementation within the Monte-Carlo simulation schemes. Applications in nuclear physics are given for heavy-ion reactions and the results are compared with the former theory and recent experimental data. The effect of the off-shell motion and the non-local and non-instant collisions on the dynamics of the system can be characterised in terms of thermodynamic functions such as the energy density or the pressure tensor. Non-equilibrium counterparts of these functions and the corresponding balance equations are derived and discussed from two points of view. Firstly, they are used to prove the conservation laws. Secondly, the role of individual microscopic mechanisms in fluxes of particles and momenta and in transformations of the energy is clarified.

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