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We consider the initial-boundary value problem for an incompressible Oldroyd-B model with stress diffusion in two-dimensional upper half plane which describes the motion of viscoelastic polymeric fluids. From the physical point of view, the…

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We address the possibility of performing numerical Monte Carlo simulations for the thermodynamics of quantum dissipative systems. Dissipation is considered within the Caldeira-Leggett formulation, which describes the system in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Capriotti , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia

We develop a practical framework for distinguishing diffusive stochastic processes from deterministic signals using only a single discrete time series. Our approach is based on classical excursion and crossing theorems for continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Sunia Tanweer , Firas A. Khasawneh

We introduce a theoretical approach to study the quantum-dissipative dynamics of electronic excitations in macromolecules, which enables to perform calculations in large systems and cover long time intervals. All the parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 S. A Beccara , F. Mascherpa , E. Schneider , P. Faccioli

We review the basic outline of the highly successful diffusion Monte Carlo technique commonly used in contexts ranging from electronic structure calculations to rare event simulation and data assimilation, and propose a new class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Lek-Heng Lim , Jonathan Weare

We study diffusion processes in regions generated by sliding a cross section by the phase flow of vector filed on curved spaces of arbitrary dimension. We do this by studying the effective diffusion coefficient D that arises when trying to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Carlos Valero

We investigate the use of diffusion models as neural density estimators. The current approach to this problem involves converting the generative process to a smooth flow, known as the Probability Flow ODE. The log density at a given sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Akhil Premkumar

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

The equation which describes a particle diffusing in a logarithmic potential arises in diverse physical problems such as momentum diffusion of atoms in optical traps, condensation processes, and denaturation of DNA molecules. A detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ori Hirschberg , David Mukamel , Gunter M. Schütz

This paper provides a full characterization of the value function and solution(s) of an optimal stopping problem for a one-dimensional diffusion with an integral criterion. The results hold under very weak assumptions, namely, the diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Manuel Guerra , Cláudia Nunes , Carlos Oliveira

Equality-constrained models naturally arise in problems in which measurements are taken at different levels of resolution. The challenge in this setting is that the models usually induce a joint distribution which is intractable. Resorting…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-28 Shenggang Hu , Hongsheng Dai , Fanlin Meng , Louis Aslett , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

To simulate elastic turbulence, where viscoelasticity dominates, numerical solvers introduce an artificial stress diffusivity term to handle the steep polymer stress gradients that ensue. This has recently been shown [Gupta & Vincenzi, J.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Vedad Dzanic , Christopher S. From , Emilie Sauret

We introduce a guided stochastic sampling method that augments sampling from diffusion models with physics-based guidance derived from partial differential equation (PDE) residuals and observational constraints, ensuring generated samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andrew Millard , Fredrik Lindsten , Zheng Zhao

We present a method which extends Monte Carlo studies to situations that require a large dynamic range in particle number. The underlying idea is that, in order to calculate the collisional evolution of a system, some particle interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. W. Ormel , M. Spaans

We propose an alternative method for one-dimensional continuum diffusion models with spatially variable (heterogeneous) diffusivity. Our method, which extends recent work on stochastic diffusion, assumes the constant-coefficient homogenized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Elliot J. Carr

We construct a novel estimator for the diffusion coefficient of the limiting homogenized equation, when observing the slow dynamics of a multiscale model, in the case when the slow dynamics are of bounded variation. Previous research…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Theodoros Manikas , Anastasia Papavasiliou

The stochastic-gauge representation is a method of mapping the equation of motion for the quantum mechanical density operator onto a set of equivalent stochastic differential equations. One of the stochastic variables is termed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 Mark R. Dowling , Matthew J. Davis , Peter D. Drummond , Joel F. Corney

We study counterfactual stochastic optimization of conditional loss functionals under misspecified and noisy gradient information. The difficulty is that when the conditioning event has vanishing or zero probability, naive Monte Carlo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Vikram Krishnamurthy , Luke Snow

In this paper, we focus on non-asymptotic bounds related to the Euler scheme of an ergodic diffusion with a possibly multiplicative diffusion term (non-constant diffusion coefficient). More precisely, the objective of this paper is to…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Gilles Pages , Fabien Panloup

We investigate a local modification of a variable-order fractional wave equation, which describes the propagation of diffusive wave in viscoelastic media with evolving physical property. We incorporate an equivalent formulation to prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jinhong Jia , Chuanting Jiang , Yiqun Li , Mengmeng Liu , Wenlin Qiu