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Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) by relativistic shocks is thought to generate the $dN/dE\propto E^{-p}$ spectra of charged particles in various astronomical relativistic flows. We show that for test particles in one dimension (1D),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Uri Keshet

We investigate single-particle diffusion in a two-state Langevin model where the friction coefficient randomly switches between low-friction (liquid-like) and high-friction (glassy-like) states. The dynamics are governed by the ratio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Fivos Perakis , Takeshi Kawasaki , Shinji Saito

The dynamics of heavy quarks within the hot QCD medium have been revisited, considering the influence of anomalous diffusion. This study has been conducted using the framework of the fractional Langevin equation involving the Caputo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Jai Prakash

We calculate the full density response function, and from it the long-wavelength acoustic dispersion for a two-dimensional system of strongly coupled point dipoles interacting through a 1/r^3 potential at arbitrary degeneracy. Such a system…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenneth I. Golden , Gabor J. Kalman , Zoltan Donko , Peter Hartmann

We present a microscopic calculation of the electric conductivity and net-particle diffusion coefficients for a viscous and resistive ultra-relativistic plasma. Our results might be of interest for several astrophysical and cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Ferdinando Frascà , Andrea Beraudo , Luca Del Zanna

The heavy quark diffusion coefficient is encoded in the spectral functions of the chromo-electric and the chromo-magnetic correlators, of which the latter describes the T/M contribution. We study these correlators at two different…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-22 Viljami Leino , Nora Brambilla , Julian Mayer-Steudte , Peter Petreczky

We calculate the momentum diffusion coefficient for heavy quarks in SU(3) gluon plasma at temperatures 1-2 times the deconfinement temperature. The momentum diffusion coefficient is extracted from a Monte Carlo calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-13 Debasish Banerjee , Saumen Datta , Rajiv V. Gavai , Pushan Majumdar

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

We calculate diffusion and hadronization of heavy quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions implementing the notion of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in both micro- and macroscopic components. The diffusion process is simulated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the transverse momentum broadening distribution of an energetic quark or gluon propagating through dense QCD matter, in the large system size $L$ limit, taking into account radiative corrections in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Paul Caucal

The diffusion behavior of an active Brownian particle (ABP) in polymer solutions is studied using Langevin dynamics simulations. We find that the long time diffusion coefficient $D$ can show a non-monotonic dependence on the particle size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-11 Yunfei Du , Zhonghuai Hou

The hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general linear gauges are computed. We get the explicit expressions of the gluon propagator in covariant gauge, Coulomb gauge and temporal axial gauge. Considering one gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Yun Guo

We present a classical, mesoscopic derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion in an expanding medium. To this end, we take a conveniently generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation as the starting point. We obtain an analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , C. Escudero

Nonintegrable systems thermalize, leading to the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics. Typically, this hydrodynamics is diffusive. We use the effective field theory (EFT) of diffusion to compute higher-point functions of conserved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Luca V. Delacretaz , Ruchira Mishra

We revisit the classic problem of the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle in a square lattice of reflecting impenetrable hard disks. This diffusion constant is also related to the effective conductivity of non-conducting and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-09 M. Mangeat , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

We perform nonadiabatic simulations of warm dense aluminum based on the electron-force field (EFF) variant of wave-packet molecular dynamics. Comparison of the static ion-ion structure factor with density functional theory (DFT) is used to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Ryan A. Davis , W. A. Angermeier , R. Hermsmeier , Thomas G. White

The ad-atom dynamic equation, a Langevin type equation is analyzed and solved using some non-linear analytical and numerical tools. We noticeably show that the effect of the surface acoustic wave is to induce an effective potential that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-14 Nicolas Combe , C. Taillan , J. Morillo

The charge-density response of extended materials is usually dominated by the collective oscillation of electrons, the plasmons. Beyond this feature, however, intriguing many-body effects are observed. They cannot be described by one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-20 Martin Panholzer , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

This paper deals with the spectral densities of a dispersive dielectric object in the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics based on the modified Langevin noise formalism. In this formalism, the electromagnetic field in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Giovanni Miano , Loris Maria Cangemi , Carlo Forestiere

A Langevin process diffusing in a periodic potential landscape has a time dependent diffusion constant which means that its average mean squared displacement (MSD) only becomes linear at late times. The long time, or effective diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 David S. Dean , Gleb Oshanin