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The stochastic scenario of relaxation in the complex systems is presented. It is based on a general probabilistic formalism of limit theorems. The nonexponential relaxation is shown to result from the asymptotic self-similar properties in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

We introduce a family of reversible fragmentating-coagulating processes of particles of varying size-scaled diffusivity with strictly local interaction on the real line as mathematically rigorous description of colloidal motion of fluids.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Vitalii Konarovskyi , Max von Renesse

We study the GENERIC (General Equation for Non-Equilibrium Reversible Irreversible Coupling) formulation of the nonlinear Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation from the perspective of gradient flows along trajectories. After pulling back the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Zhenxin Liu , Xuewei Wang

We present a discretization-free scalable framework for solving a large class of mass-conserving partial differential equations (PDEs), including the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation and the Wasserstein gradient flow. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Lingxiao Li , Samuel Hurault , Justin Solomon

We consider the system of sticky-reflected Brownian particles on the real line proposed in [arXiv:1711.03011]. The model is a modification of the Howitt-Warren flow but now the diffusion rate of particles is inversely proportional to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Vitalii Konarovskyi

We study the classical motion of a particle subject to a stochastic force. We then present a perturbative schema for the associated Fokker-Planck equation where, in the limit of a vanishingly small noise source, a consistent dynamical model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Torres , J. M. A. Figueiredo

In this paper, we propose a drift-diffusion process on the probability simplex to study stochastic fluctuations in probability spaces. We construct a counting process for linear detailed balanced chemical reactions with finite species such…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu

This work is devoted to the Lipschitz contraction and the long time behavior of certain Markov processes. These processes diffuse and jump. They can represent some natural phenomena like size of cell or data transmission over the Internet.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Bertrand Cloez

We propose a variational scheme for computing Wasserstein gradient flows. The scheme builds upon the Jordan--Kinderlehrer--Otto framework with the Benamou-Brenier's dynamic formulation of the quadratic Wasserstein metric and adds a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Wuchen Li , Jianfeng Lu , Li Wang

We derive a relation between the dissipation in a stochastic dynamics and the Wasserstein distance. We show that the minimal amount of dissipation required to transform an initial state to a final state during a diffusion process is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-19 Andreas Dechant , Yohei Sakurai

We consider Fokker-Planck equations with tilted periodic potential in the subcritical regime and characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of the partial masses in the limit of vanishing diffusion. Our convergence proof relies on suitably…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Michael Herrmann , Barbara Niethammer

We study a granular gas heated by a stochastic thermostat in the dilute limit. Starting from the kinetic equations governing the evolution of the correlation functions, a Boltzmann-Langevin equation is constructed. The spectrum of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-11 P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria , E. Trizac

For free energies of the form \[ F(\mu) = E(\mu) + \sigma\int_\Omega \mu\log\mu\,dx, \quad \sigma > 0, \] we study the Wasserstein gradient flow, a continuity equation also known as mean-field Langevin dynamics, around a stationary state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dante Kalise , Lucas M. Moschen , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

The dynamics of probability density functions have been extensively studied in computational science and engineering to understand physical phenomena and facilitate algorithmic design. Of particular interest are dynamics formulated as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 José A. Carrillo , Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Dongyi Wei

We consider discrete porous medium equations of the form \partial_t \rho_t = \Delta \phi(\rho_t), where \Delta is the generator of a reversible continuous time Markov chain on a finite set X, and \phi is an increasing function. We show that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

We consider a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the density of interacting and diffusive matter in the space of positions and velocities. We use a probabilistic interpretation to obtain convergence towards equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Francois Bolley , Arnaud Guillin , Florent Malrieu

We study the long-time dynamics of two-dimensional linear Fokker-Planck equations driven by a drift that can be decomposed in the sum of a large shear component and the gradient of a regular potential depending on one spatial variable. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Michele Coti Zelati , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Adrian A. Budini

We consider the description of a Fermi gas of free electrons given by the Boltzmann--Fermi--Dirac equation, and aim at providing a precise mathematical understanding of the Fermi ground state and its first-order approximation of excited…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Benjamin Anwasia , Diogo Arsénio

We prove the equivalence between the notion of Wasserstein gradient flow for a one-dimensional nonlocal transport PDE with attractive/repulsive Newtonian potential on one side, and the notion of entropy solution of a Burgers-type scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Giovanni A. Bonaschi , José A. Carrillo , Marco Di Francesco , Mark A. Peletier
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