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We present a perturbation theory by extending a prescription due to Feynman for computing the probability density function for the random flight motion. The method can be applied to a wide variety of otherwise difficult circumstances. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tim Hatamian

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

We develop a numerical algorithm for computing the effective drift and diffusivity of the steady-state behavior of an overdamped particle driven by a periodic potential whose amplitude is modulated in time by multiplicative noise and forced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Juan C. Latorre , Peter R. Kramer , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

We study the long-range effective drift and diffusivity of a particle in a random medium moving subject to a given molecular diffusivity and a local drift. The local drift models the effect of a random electrostatic field on a neutral but…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 I. T. Drummond , R. R. Horgan , C. A. da Silva Santos

We study the long-time behavior of underdamped Brownian particle moving through a viscous medium and in a systematic potential, when it is subjected to a space-dependent high-frequency periodic force. When the frequency is very large, much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Malay Bandyopadhyay , Sushanta Dattagupta , Monamie Sanyal

We discuss the distribution of various estimators for extracting the diffusion constant of single Brownian trajectories obtained by fitting the squared displacement of the trajectory. The analysis of the problem can be framed in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Denis Boyer , David S. Dean

This paper is devoted to the homogenization of Shr\"odinger type equations with periodically oscillating coefficients of the diffusion term, and a rapidly oscillating periodic time-dependent potential. One convergence theorem is proved and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Lazarus Signing

The long-time/large-scale, small-friction asymptotic for the one dimensional Langevin equation with a periodic potential is studied in this paper. It is shown that the Freidlin-Wentzell and central limit theorem (homogenization) limits…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Martin Hairer , Grigorios Pavliotis

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport formulation of the full Einstein equations of general relativity, linking the (Ricci) curvature of a space-time with the cosmological constant and the energy-momentum tensor. Such an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Andrea Mondino , Stefan Suhr

This paper presents new results on the Edgeworth expansion for high frequency functionals of continuous diffusion processes. We derive asymptotic expansions for weighted functionals of the Brownian motion and apply them to provide the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Mark Podolskij , Nakahiro Yoshida

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

A Langevin process diffusing in a periodic potential landscape has a time dependent diffusion constant which means that its average mean squared displacement (MSD) only becomes linear at late times. The long time, or effective diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 David S. Dean , Gleb Oshanin

The diffusion limit of the linear Boltzmann equation with a strong magnetic field is performed. The giration period of particles around the magnetic field is assumed to be much smaller than the collision relaxation time which is supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Naoufel Ben Abdallah , Raymond El Hajj

The transport phenomenon (movement and diffusion) of inertia Brownian particles in a periodic potential with non-Gaussian noise is investigated. It is found that proper noise intensity Q will promote particles directional movement(or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Bing Wang , Xiaoxiao Zhang , Yajuan Sun , Zhongwei Qu , Xuechao Li

We demonstrate that a Langevin equation that describes the motion of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions can be exactly transformed to a special equation that explicitly exhibits the response of the velocity to a time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takahiro Harada , Kumiko Hayashi , Shin-ichi Sasa

We study the diffusion of a Brownian particle quadratically coupled to a thermally fluctuating field. In the weak coupling limit, a path-integral formulation allows to compute the effective diffusion coefficient in the cases of an active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 Vincent Démery

Numerical solutions of a non-Fickian diffusion equation belonging to a hyperbolic type are presented in one space dimension. The Brownian particle modelled by this diffusion equation is subjected to a symmetric periodic potential whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Adérito Araújo , Amal K. Das , Cidália Neves , Ercília Sousa

We study the gravitational dynamics in the early inspiral phase of coalescing compact binaries using Non-Relativistic General Relativity (NRGR) - an effective field theory formalism based on the post-newtonian expansion, but which provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Delphine L. Perrodin

An alternative derivation of Brownian motion is presented. Instead of supplementing the linearized Navier-Stokes equation with a fluctuating force, we directly assume a Gaussian action functional for solvent velocity fluctuations. Solvating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-24 Thomas Speck

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced mass transport compared to diffusion without flow. An important framework used to characterize the long-time diffusive transport in position space is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Peng