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We derive the generalized Fokker-Planck equation associated with a Langevin equation driven by arbitrary additive white noise. We apply our result to study the distribution of symmetric and asymmetric L\'{e}vy flights in an infinitely deep…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-11 S. I. Denisov , Werner Horsthemke , Peter Hänggi

Using the pseudo-invariant operator method, we investigate the model of a particle with a time-dependent mass in a complex time-dependent symmetric potential well $V\left( x,t\right) =if\left(t\right) \left\vert x\right\vert$. The problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Boubakeur Khantoul , A. Bounames

It is well-known that for a one dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian noise, with coefficient functions satisfying the assumptions of the Yamada-Watanabe theorem \cite{yamada1,yamada2} and the Feller test for…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Duc Hoang Luu , Tat Dat Tran , Jürgen Jost

Employing time-dependent projection formalism, a Fokker-Planck equation with non-Markovian transport coefficients is derived for large amplitude collective motion. Properties of transport coefficients for diffusion processes in a potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Noboru Takigawa , Sakir Ayik , Sachie Kimura

We present a diagrammatic formulation of a theory for the time dependence of density fluctuations in equilibrium systems of interacting Brownian particles. To facilitate derivation of the diagrammatic expansion we introduce a basis that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Szamel

The system consists of a Brownian particle immersed in a heat bath trapped in optical tweezers with a time-dependent strength acting as an external protocol. In [Phys. Rev. Letts., 98:108301, 2007] the optimal mean work in the overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-03 Pedro J. Colmenares , Oscar Paredes-Altuve

We study the probability distribution function (pdf) of the position of a L\'evy flight of index 0<\alpha<2 in presence of an absorbing wall at the origin. The solution of the associated fractional Fokker-Planck equation can be constructed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-24 Reinaldo Garcia-Garcia , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

Biomolecular conformational transitions are usually modeled as barrier crossings in a free energy landscape. The transition paths connect two local free energy minima and transition path times (TPT) are the actual durations of the crossing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 Michele Caraglio , Takahiro Sakaue , Enrico Carlon

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness of weak solutions to the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation. Its dynamics is governed by anomalous diffusion, and we consider the most general case of space-time dependent forces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Marvin Fritz

We study the effects of an intermittent harmonic potential of strength $\mu = \mu_0 \nu$ -- that switches on and off stochastically at a constant rate $\gamma$, on an overdamped Brownian particle with damping coefficient $\nu$. This can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ion Santra , Santanu Das , Sujit Kumar Nath

Much research regarding quantum adiabatic optimization has focused on stoquastic Hamiltonians with Hamming symmetric potentials, such as the well studied "spike" example. Due to the large amount of symmetry in these potentials such problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Jacob Bringewatt , William Dorland , Stephen P. Jordan

When a Hamiltonian system undergoes a stochastic, time-dependent anharmonic perturbation, the values of its adiabatic invariants as a function of time follow a distribution whose shape obeys a Fokker-Planck equation. The effective dynamics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 N. Boulanger , F. Buisseret , V. Dehouck , F. Dierick , O. White

We have derived a fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in a general space-and- time-dependent force field from power law waiting time continuous time random walks biased by Boltzmann weights. The governing equation is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-27 B. I. Henry , T. A. M Langlands , P. Straka

We demonstrate that a particle driven by a set of spatially uncorrelated, independent colored noise forces in a bounded, multidimensional potential exhibits rotations that are independent of the initial conditions. We calculate the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. W. Ghosh , S. V. Khare

Using a projection-based decoupling of the Fokker-Planck equation, control strategies that allow to speed up the convergence to the stationary distribution are investigated. By means of an operator theoretic framework for a bilinear control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

We rigorously derive non-equilibrium space-time fluctuation for the particle density of a system of reflected diffusions in bounded Lipschitz domains in $\mathbb R^d$. The particles are independent and are killed by a time-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Zhen-Qing Chen , Wai-Tong Louis Fan

Recently many results namely the Fluctuation theorems (FT), have been discovered for systems arbitrarily away from equilibrium. Many of these relations have been experimentally tested. The system under consideration is usually driven out of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rahul Marathe , Sourabh Lahiri

We construct a planar diffusion process whose infinitesimal generator depends only on the order of the components of the process. Speaking informally and a bit imprecisely for the moment, imagine you run two Brownian-like particles on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-19 E. Robert Fernholz , Tomoyuki Ichiba , Ioannis Karatzas , Vilmos Prokaj

We consider the Langevin equation with multiplicative noise term which depends on time and space. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation in Stratonovich approach is investigated. Its formal solution is obtained for an arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Kwok Sau Fa

In this work, we consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho