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Photon frequency diffusion process
Guilherme Eduardo Freire Oliveira, Christian Maes, Kasper Meerts
We introduce a stochastic multi-photon dynamics on reciprocal space. Assuming isotropy, we derive the diffusion limit for a tagged photon to be a nonlinear Markov process on freque…
Statistical Mechanics of the Kompaneets Equation
Guilherme Eduardo Freire Oliveira
As an important subject in non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, we study in this thesis the relaxation to equilibrium of a photon gas in contact with an non-relativistic and non-…
On the derivation of the Kompaneets equation
Guilherme Eduardo Freire Oliveira, Christian Maes, Kasper Meerts
The relaxation of a photon bath to thermal equilibrium via Compton scattering with electrons is described in the Kompaneets equation (1956). The equation is mostly known from studi…