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Reaction-diffusion systems where transition rates exhibit quenched disorder are common in physical and chemical systems. We study pair reactions on a periodic two-dimensional lattice, including continuous deposition and spontaneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-10 A. Wolff , I. Lohmar , J. Krug , Y. Frank , O. Biham

The original perturbative Kramers' method (starting from the phase space coordinates) (Kramers, 1940) of determining the energy-controlled-diffusion equation for Newtonian particles with separable and additive Hamiltonians is generalized to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-20 Declan J. Byrne , William T. Coffey , Yuri P. Kalmykov , Serguey V. Titov

Brownian motion with coordinate dependent damping and diffusivity is ubiquitous. Understanding equilibrium of a Brownian particle with coordinate dependent diffusion and damping is a contentious area. In this paper, we present an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-19 A. Bhattacharyay

By means of a particle model that includes interactions only via the local particle concentration, we show that hyperballistic diffusion may result. This is done by findng the exact solution of the corresponding non-linear diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Eirik G. Flekkøy , Alex Hansen , Beatrice Baldelli

In this work we prove a Kramers' type law for the low-temperature behavior of the exit-times from a metastable state for a class of self-interacting nonlinear diffusion processes. Contrary to previous works, the interaction is not assumed…

Quantum Brownian motion in the strong friction limit is studied based on the exact path integral formulation of dissipative systems. In this limit the time-nonlocal reduced dynamics can be cast into an effective equation of motion, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Philip Pechukas

In this paper we use the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations to study propagation phenomena in kinetic equations. We perform the hydrodynamic limit of some kinetic models thanks to an adapted WKB ansatz. Our models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Emeric Bouin

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Scott Hottovy , Austin McDaniel , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We explore the diffusion process in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal noise.%the escape rate problem in the non-Markovian spatio-temporal random noise. There is a non-trivial short memory regime, i.e., the Markovian limit characterized by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takaaki Monnai , Ayumu Sugita , Katsuhiro Nakamura

Kramers escape from a metastable state in the presence of both thermal and quantum fluctuations under strong damping is treated as a thermally activated process in a quantum modified semiclassical potential. Dirac's time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Choon-Lin Ho

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

We address the long time behaviour of weakly interacting diffusive particle systems on the d-dimensional torus. Our main result is to show that, under certain regularity conditions, the weak error between the empirical distribution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 François Delarue , Alvin Tse

The scattering approach to quantum transport through a disordered quasi-one-dimensional conductor in the insulating regime is discussed in terms of its transfer matrix $\bbox{T}$. A model of $N$ one-dimensional wires which are coupled by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Dirk Endesfelder

Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Sean D Lawley

The finite nucleus incompressibility $K^A$ is evaluated using the coherent density fluctuation model with the extended relativistic mean field density. The relativistic energy density functional for nuclear matter is replaced by the local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

We consider the application of Kramers theory to the microscopic calculation of rates of conformational transitions of macromolecules. The main difficulty in such an approach is to locate the transition state in a huge configuration space.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-02 Marcello Sega , Pietro Faccioli , Francesco Pederiva , Henri Orland

The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Mohammad Reza Yaghouti , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou , Alan Hammond

It is shown {\it in detail how} the ground-state self-energy $\Sigma(k,\omega)$ of the spin-unpolarized uniform electron gas (with the density parameter $r_s$) in its high-density limit $r_s\to 0 $ determines: the momentum distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul Ziesche

An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 M. A. Malkov

The Schr\"{o}dinger problem of deducing the microscopic dynamics from the input-output statistics data is known to admit a solution in terms of Markov diffusions. The uniqueness of solution is found linked to the natural boundaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Ph. Blanchard , P. Garbaczewski