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We develop a new fast-diffusion approximation for the kinetics of deposition of extended objects on a linear substrate, accompanied by diffusional relaxation. This new approximation plays the role of the mean-field theory for such processes…

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This study delves into the connection between machine learning and lattice field theory by linking generative diffusion models (DMs) with stochastic quantization, from a stochastic differential equation perspective. We show that DMs can be…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-08 Lingxiao Wang , Gert Aarts , Kai Zhou

In 1911, J\"uttner proposed the generalization, for a relativistic gas, of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of velocities. Here we want to discuss, among others, J\"uttner probability density function (PDF). Both the velocity space and,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-18 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Carlos E. Cedeño , Ivano Damião Soares , Constantino Tsallis

In this paper we study macroscopic density equations in which the diffusion coefficient depends on a weighted spatial average of the density itself. We show that large differences (not present in the local density-dependence case) appear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez

We review some recent results concerning the derivation of the diffusion equation and the validation of Fick's law for the microscopic model given by the random Lorentz Gas. These results are achieved by using a linear kinetic equation as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alessia Nota

The Westervelt equation describes the propagation of pressure waves in continuous nonlinear and, eventually, diffusive media. The classical framework of this equation corresponds to fluid dynamics theory. This work seeks to connect this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Mariano Caruso , Guillermo Rus , Juan Melchor

A version of fractional diffusion on bounded domains, subject to 'homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions' is derived from a kinetic transport model with homogeneous inflow boundary conditions. For nonconvex domains, the result differs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

The Langevin theory of the polarization of a dilute collection of dipoles by an external field is often included in introductory solid state physics and physical chemistry curricula. The average polarization is calculated assuming the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert D. Nielsen

Superluminal propagation is an intrinsic problem in the diffusion equation and has not been effectively addressed for a long time. In this work, a rigorous solution to this issue is obtained under the assumption that particles undergo a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

The shear viscosity is a fundamental transport property of matter. Here we derive a general theory of the viscosity of gases based on the relativistic Langevin equation (deduced from a relativistic Lagrangian) and nonaffine linear response…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Alessio Zaccone

A quantum theory of dispersion for an inhomogeneous solid is obtained, from a starting point of multipolar coupled atoms interacting with an electromagnetic field. The dispersion relations obtained are equivalent to the standard classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. D. Drummond , M. Hillery

The fundamental concept of phase space for particles moving in the four-dimensional spacetime is analyzed. Particle distribution density is defined as differential form, which degree may be different in various cases. It should be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 O. I. Drivotin

In this paper, we are interested in a general equation that has finite speed of propagation compatible with Einstein's theory of special relativity. This equation without external force fields has been derived recently by means of optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Manh Hong Duong

We propose to use spin hydrodynamics, a two-fluid model of spin propagation, as a generalization of the diffusion equation. We show that in the dense limit spin hydrodynamics reduces to Fick's law and the diffusion equation. In the opposite…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-02 Thomas Schaefer

We show how a relativistic Langevin equation can be derived from a Lorentz-covariant version of the Caldeira-Leggett particle-bath Lagrangian. In one of its limits, we identify the obtained equation with the Langevin equation used in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-12 Aleksandr Petrosyan , Alessio Zaccone

A relativistic diffusion model with cylindrical symmetry, which propagates an initial state based on quantum chromodynamics in time towards a thermal equilibrium limit, is derived from nonequilibrium-statistical considerations: Adapting an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-29 Johannes Hoelck , Georg Wolschin

We study diffusion processes in anomalous spacetimes regarded as models of quantum geometry. Several types of diffusion equation and their solutions are presented and the associated stochastic processes are identified. These results are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Gianluca Calcagni

Fractional calculus allows one to generalize the linear, one-dimensional, diffusion equation by replacing either the first time derivative or the second space derivative by a derivative of fractional order. The fundamental solutions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Mainardi , Paolo Paradisi , Rudolf Gorenflo

Using the methods of computer modeling this scientific paper studies the special features of diffusion of the particles subjected to the external periodic force in the crystal lattice. The particle motion is described by a Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-04 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko

This paper further discusses the tempered fractional Brownian motion, its ergodicity, and the derivation of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation. Then we introduce the generalized Langevin equation with the tempered fractional Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng