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The score function for the diffusion process, also known as the gradient of the log-density, is a basic concept to characterize the probability flow with important applications in the score-based diffusion generative modelling and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yuanfei Huang , Chengyu Liu , Xiang Zhou

This article studies a Fokker-Planck type equation of fractional diffusion with conservative drift $\partial$f/$\partial$t = $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) f + div(Ef), where $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) denotes the fractional Laplacian and E is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Laurent Lafleche

We obtain exact results for fractional equations of Fokker-Planck type using evolution operator method. We employ exact forms of one-sided Levy stable distributions to generate a set of self-reproducing solutions. Explicit cases are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Gorska , K. A. Penson , D. Babusci , G. Dattoli , G. H. E. Duchamp

We consider a Markovian jumping process which is defined in terms of the jump-size distribution and the waiting-time distribution with a position-dependent frequency, in the diffusion limit. We assume the power-law form for the frequency.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 T. Srokowski , A. Kaminska

The ``Brownian bees'' model describes an ensemble of $N=$~const independent branching Brownian particles. The conservation of $N$ is provided by a modified branching process. When a particle branches into two particles, the particle which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-08 Pavel Sasorov , Arkady Vilenkin , Naftali R. Smith

We consider a nonlinear stochastic differential equation driven by an $\alpha$-stable L\'{e}vy process ($1<\alpha<2$). We first obtain some regularity results for the probability density of its invariant measure via establishing the a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Qi Zhang , Jinqiao Duan

Brownian motion, as one of the most fundamental concepts in statistical physics, has everlasting interests in interdisciplinary fields in the past century. Although this motion with static potentials have been widely explored, its physics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Boxuan Han , Zeyu Rao , Ming Gong

The diffusion of a fractional Brownian particle passing over the saddle point is studied in the field of the metastable potential. The barrier escaping probability is found to be greatly related to the fractional exponent $\alpha$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chun-Yang Wang , Cui-Feng Sun , Hong Zhang , Xue-Mei Zong , Ming Yi

We derive analytic solutions for the full time dependence of space-fractional Fokker-Planck equations corresponding to stochastic Langevin equations with additive tempered-stable L\'{e}vy noise terms. The drift terms are generalised to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Mathew Zuparic , Alexander Kalloniatis

In the Heliosphere, power-law particle distributions are observed e.g. upstream of interplanetary shocks, which can result from superdiffusive transport. This non-Gaussian transport regime may result from intermittent magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Sophie Aerdker , Lukas Merten , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus

In this paper we analyze fractional Fokker-Planck equation describing subdiffusion in the general infinitely divisible (ID) setting. We show that in the case of space-time-dependent drift and diffusion and time-dependent jump coefficient,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Marcin Magdziarz , Tomasz Zorawik

We address the problem of recognizing alpha-stable Levy distribution with Levy index close to 2 from experimental data. We are interested in the case when the sample size of available data is not large, thus the power law asymptotics of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-05 Krzysztof Burnecki , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Aleksei Beletskii , Vsevolod Gonchar , Aleksei Chechkin

Stochastic differential equations with Levy motion arise the mathematical models for various phenomenon in geophysical and biochemical sciences. The Fokker Planck equation for such a stochastic differential equations is a nonlocal partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Li Lin

We consider the time evolution of two-dimensional Levy flights in a finite area with periodic boundary conditions. From simulations we show that the fractal path dimension d_f and thus the degree of area coverage grows in time until it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mahsa Vahabi , Johannes H. P. Schulz , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler

We study L\'evy flights confined in a parabolic potential. This has to do with a fractional generalization of ordinary quantum-mechanical oscillator problem. To solve the spectral problem for the fractional quantum oscillator, we pass to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-28 E. V. Kirichenko , V. A. Stephanovich

We study the efficiency of search processes based on Levy flights (LFs) with power-law distributed jump lengths in the presence of an external drift. While LFs turn out to be efficient search processes when relative to the starting point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-06 Vladimir V. Palyulin , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We study the efficiency of random search processes based on L{\'e}vy flights with power-law distributed jump lengths in the presence of an external drift, for instance, an underwater current, an airflow, or simply the bias of the searcher…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vladimir V. Palyulin , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We consider a one dimensional asymmetric random walk whose jumps are identical, independent and drawn from a distribution \phi(\eta) displaying asymmetric power law tails (i.e. \phi(\eta) \sim c/\eta^{\alpha +1} for large positive jumps and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-24 Clélia de Mulatier , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We consider a Markovian jumping process with two absorbing barriers, for which the waiting-time distribution involves a position-dependent coefficient. We solve the Fokker-Planck equation with boundary conditions and calculate the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-16 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

Levy flights and subdiffusive processes and their properties are discussed. We derive the space- and time-fractional transport equations, and consider their solutions in external potentials. An extensive list of references is included.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-26 Ralf Metzler , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Joseph Klafter