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We obtain within Fokker-Planck dynamics an explicit generalization of Einstein's relation between drag, diffusion and equilibrium distribution for a spatially homogeneous system, considering both the transverse and longitudinal diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Brian Walton , Johann Rafelski

In an unsaturated granular material, the spatial distribution of the liquid phase results from the competition between gravity and capillary forces. We show that, in the funicular regime, it can be described by a Boltzmann law, with static…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-28 Loredana Lazar , Cécile Clavaud , Axelle Amon

A quantum linear Boltzmann equation is proposed, constructed in terms of the operator-valued dynamic structure factor of the macroscopic system the test particle is interacting with. Due to this operator structure it is a non-Abelian linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bassano Vacchini

The dynamical evolution of a Brownian particle in an inhomogeneous medium with spatially varying friction and temperature field is important to understand conceptually. It requires to address the basic problem of relative stability of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Jayannavar , Mangal C. Mahato

Dynamics of complex systems is often hierarchically organized on different time scales. To understand the physics of such hierarchy, here Brownian motion of a particle moving through a fluctuating medium with slowly varying temperature is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-14 Sumiyoshi Abe

Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time ("strong anomaly") and share the interesting property that the probability…

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

The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , D. Litinski

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

A relativistic kinetic Fokker-Planck equation that has been recently proposed in the physical literature is studied. It is shown that, in contrast to other existing relativistic models, the one considered in this paper is invariant under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 José Antonio Alcántara Félix , Simone Calogero

A mixture of light-gas particles and Brownian heavy particles is analyzed within the framework of a post-Newtonian Boltzmann equation to determine the Fokker-Planck equation for the Brownian motion. For each species, the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gilberto M. Kremer

This review is a kinetic theory study investigating the effects of inelasticity on the structure of the non-equilibrium states, in particular on the behavior of the velocity distribution in the high energy tails. Starting point is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Brito , M. H. Ernst

A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

We solve the Fokker-Planck equation for Brownian motion in a logarithmic potential. When the diffusion constant is below a critical value the solution approaches a non-normalizable scaling state, reminiscent of an infinite invariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-27 David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

Microscopic theory of Brownian motion of a particle of mass $M$ in a bath of molecules of mass $m\ll M$ is considered beyond lowest order in the mass ratio $m/M$. The corresponding Langevin equation contains nonlinear corrections to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-22 A. V. Plyukhin

A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

A covariant Fokker-Planck type equation for a simple gas and an equation for the Brownian motion are derived from a relativistic kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation. For the simple gas the dynamic friction four-vector and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Guillermo Chacón--Acosta , Gilberto M. Kremer

One obtains a probabilistic representation for the entropic generalized solutions to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in $\mathbb R^d$ with multivalued nonlinear diffusion term as density probabilities of solutions to a nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Viorel Barbu , Michael Röckner

Under low-collisionality conditions the isotropic part of the electron velocity distribution function in a plasma becomes non-local and the electrons can be described by a single global distribution function . This is also the regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Uwe Czarnetzki

Within the framework of the homogeneous non-linear Boltzmann equation, we present a new analytic method, without the intrinsic limitations of existing methods, for obtaining asymptotic solutions. This method permits extension of existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Ernst , E. Trizac , A. Barrat

The object of this paper is the uniqueness for a $d$-dimensional Fokker-Planck type equation with non-homogeneous (possibly degenerated) measurable not necessarily bounded coefficients. We provide an application to the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Nadia Belaribi , Francesco Russo