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Given a positive energy solution of the Klein-Gordon equation, the motion of the free, spinless, relativistic particle is described in a fixed Lorentz frame by a Markov diffusion process with non-constant diffusion coefficient. Proper time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Michele Pavon

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

The problem of biological motion is a very intriguing and topical issue. Many efforts are being focused on the development of novel modeling approaches for the description of anomalous diffusion in biological systems, such as the very…

Brownian motion is a ubiquitous physical phenomenon across the sciences. After its discovery by Brown and intensive study since the first half of the 20th century, many different aspects of Brownian motion and stochastic processes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ralf Metzler

Traditionally, the quantum Brownian motion is described by Fokker-Planck or diffusion equations in terms of quasi-probability distribution functions, e.g., Wigner functions. These often become singular or negative in the full quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suman Kumar Banik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

In this paper we revisit the Brownian motion on the basis of {the fractional Langevin equation which turns out to be a particular case of the generalized Langevin equation introduced by Kubo in 1966. The importance of our approach is to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-21 Francesco Mainardi , Antonio Mura , Francesco Tampieri

Despite the success of fractional Brownian motion (fBm) in modeling systems that exhibit anomalous diffusion due to temporal correlations, recent experimental and theoretical studies highlight the necessity for a more comprehensive approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Diego Krapf

Recent rapid advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques resulted in an unprecedented abundance of diffusion data exhibiting complex behaviours, such the presence of power law tails of the msd and memory functions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-08 Jakub Ślęzak

The general covariant Fokker-Planck equations associated with the two different versions of covariant Langevin equation in Part I of this series of work are derived, both lead to the same reduced Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

The Markovian diffusion theory is generalized within the framework of the special theory of relativity using a modification of the mathematical calculus of diffusion on Riemannian manifolds (with definite metric) to describe diffusion on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Joachim Herrmann

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion provided one of the cornerstones which underlie the modern approaches to stochastic processes. His approach is based on a random walk picture and is valid for Markovian processes lacking long-term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Sokolov , J. Klafter

We introduce numerical methods for simulating the diffusive motion of rigid bodies of arbitrary shape immersed in a viscous fluid. We parameterize the orientation of the bodies using normalized quaternions, which are numerically robust,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Steven Delong , Florencio Balboa Usabiaga , Aleksandar Donev

A dynamical treatment of Markovian diffusion is presented and several applications discussed. The stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics is considered within this framework. A model for Brownian movement which includes second order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Davidson

Using a minimal-coupling-scheme we investigate the quantum Brownian motion of a particle in an anisotropic-dissipative-medium under the influence of an arbitrary potential in both relativistic and non-relativistic regimes. A general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ehsan Amooghorban , Fardin Kheirandish

Motivated by subdiffusive motion of bio-molecules observed in living cells we study the stochastic properties of a non-Brownian particle whose motion is governed by either fractional Brownian motion or the fractional Langevin equation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler

This thesis is dedicated to the study of stochastic processes; non-deterministic physical phenomena that can be well described by classical physics. The stochastic processes we are interested in are akin to Brownian Motion and can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Ashley Wilkins

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

The main goal of this paper is to provide a fractional stochastic differential equation modelling the physical phenomena governed by the Langevin equation in 1-dimension. A generalized equation leaning on the fractional Brownian motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Lounis Tewfik , Saïd Bouabdellah

Many studies on biological and soft matter systems report the joint presence of a linear mean-squared displacement and a non-Gaussian probability density exhibiting, for instance, exponential or stretched-Gaussian tails. This phenomenon is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jakub Ślęzak , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler