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We study the transport and equilibration properties of a classical Heisenberg chain, whose couplings are random variables drawn from a one-parameter family of power-law distributions. The absence of a scale in the couplings makes the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Adam J. McRoberts , Federico Balducci , Roderich Moessner , Antonello Scardicchio

We show that by integrating out the electric field and incorporating proper boundary conditions, a semiclassical Boltzmann equation can describe electron transport properties, continuously from the diffusive to ballistic regimes. General…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 H. Geng , W. Y. Deng , Y. J. Ren , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

In this work, we focus on the behavior of a single passive Brownian particle in a suspension of passive particles with short-range repulsive interactions and a larger self-diffusion coefficient. While the forces affecting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-26 Deborah Schwarcz , Stanislav Burov

We consider the motion of an underdamped Brownian particle in a tilted periodic potential in a wide temperature range. Based on the previous data [1] and the new simulation results we show that the underdamped motion of particles in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-17 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

This paper concerns the macroscopic behavior of solutions to parabolic equations with large, highly oscillatory, random potential. When the correlation function of the random potential satisfies a specific integrability condition, we show…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Yu Gu , Guillaume Bal

We analyse the impact of temperature on the diffusion coefficient of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and driven by a symmetric time-periodic force. Recent studies have revealed the low friction regime…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 I. G. Marchenko , V. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

We study two asymptotic problems for the Langevin equation with variable friction coefficient. The first is the small mass asymptotic behavior, known as the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation, of the Langevin equation with strictly positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hitoshi Ishii , Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Hung V. Tran

We present a numerical investigation of the Brownian motion and diffusion of a dumbbell in a two-dimensional periodic potential. Its dynamics is described by a Langevin model including the hydrodynamic interaction. With increasing values of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-09-02 Jochen Bammert , Steffen Schreiber , Walter Zimmermann

We study the behavior of a tracer particle driven by a one-dimensional fluctuating potential, defined initially as a Brownian motion, and evolving in time according to the heat equation. We obtain two main results. First, in the short time…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-16 François Huveneers , François Simenhaus

The paper deals with homogenization of divergence form second order parabolic operators whose coefficients are periodic in spatial variables and random stationary in time. Under proper mixing assumptions, we study the limit behaviour of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Marina Kleptsyna , Andrey Piatnitski , Alexandre Popier

Diffusion is a central phenomenon in almost all fields of natural science revealing microscopic processes from the observation of macroscopic dynamics. Here, we consider the paradigmatic system of a single atom diffusing in a periodic…

The diffusion behavior of particles moving in complex heterogeneous environment is a very topical issue. We characterize particle's trajectory via an underdamped Langevin system driven by a Gaussian white noise with a time dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang

We study the asymptotics of solutions of logistic type equations with fractional Laplacian as time goes to infinity and as the exponent in nonlinear part goes to infinity. We prove strong convergence of solutions in the energy space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Tomasz Klimsiak

Diffusion in heterogeneous energy and diffusivity landscapes is widespread in biological systems. However, solving the Langevin equation in such environments introduces ambiguity due to the interpretation parameter $\alpha$, which depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Igor M. Sokolov , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

A nonequilibrium fluctuation theorem is established for a colloidal particle driven by an external force within the hydrodynamic theory of Brownian motion, describing hydrodynamic memory effects such as the t^(-3/2) power-law decay of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Pierre Gaspard

We study the Langevin dynamics of a dipole diffusing in a random electrical field E derived from a quenched Gaussian potential. We show that in a suitable adiabatic limit (where the dynamics of the dipole moment is much faster than the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Clement Touya , David S. Dean , Clement Sire

We study the small-time asymptotics for hypoelliptic diffusion processes conditioned by their initial and final positions, in a model class of diffusions satisfying a weak H\"ormander condition where the diffusivity is constant and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Karen Habermann

We study the diffusive behavior of biased Brownian particles in a two dimensional confined geometry filled with the freezing obstacles. The transport properties of these particles are investigated for various values of the obstacles density…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Narender Khatri , P. S. Burada

We study a class of self-adjoint operators defined on the direct sum of two Hilbert spaces: a finite dimensional one called sometimes a ``small subsystem'' and an infinite dimensional one -- a ``reservoir''. The operator, which we call a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jan Derezinski , Wojciech De Roeck

Consider the motion of a charged, point particle moving in the complement of a Poisson distribution of hard sphere scatterers in two dimensions under the effect of a fixed magnetic field. Building on, and extending a coupling method…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Christopher Lutsko , Balint Toth