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In many instances, the dynamical richness and complexity observed in natural phenomena can be related to stochastic drives influencing their temporal evolution. For example, random noise allied to spatial asymmetries may induce…

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Much effort has been spent in recent years on restoring uniqueness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with non-smooth coefficients. As a typical instance, the velocity field is assumed to be bounded and measurable in its space variable and…

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The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

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Brownian yet non-Gaussian processes have recently been observed in numerous biological systems and the corresponding theories have been built based on random diffusivity models. Considering the particularity of random diffusivity, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen

It is proved that the distributions of scaling limits of Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRWs) solve integro-differential equations akin to Fokker-Planck Equations for diffusion processes. In contrast to previous such results, it is not…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Boris Baeumer , Peter Straka

When a chaotic, ergodic Hamiltonian system with $N$ degrees of freedom is subject to sufficiently rapid periodic driving, its energy evolves diffusively. We derive a Fokker-Planck equation that governs the evolution of the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 Wade Hodson , Christopher Jarzynski

The temporal Fokker-Plank equation [{\it J. Stat. Phys.}, {\bf 3/4}, 527 (2003)] or propagation-dispersion equation was derived to describe diffusive processes with temporal dispersion rather than spatial dispersion as in classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-01 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

We propose a model of sub-diffusion in which an external force is acting on a particle at all times not only at the moment of jump. The implication of this assumption is the dependence of the random trapping time on the force with the…

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The dynamics of fission has been formulated by generalising the asymptotic expansion of the Fokker-Planck equation in terms of the strength of the fluctuations where the diffusion coefficients depend on the stochastic variables explicitly.…

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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…

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We study the dynamics of long-wavelength fluctuations in one-dimensional (1D) many-particle systems as described by self-consistent mode-coupling theory. The corresponding nonlinear integro-differential equations for the relevant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Luca Delfini , Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

We consider elliptic diffusion problems with a random anisotropic diffusion coefficient, where, in a notable direction given by a random vector field, the diffusion strength differs from the diffusion strength perpendicular to this notable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Helmut Harbrecht , Marc Schmidlin

By considering a lattice model of extended phase space, and using techniques of noncommutative differential geometry, we are led to: (a) the conception of vector fields as generators of motion and transition probability distributions on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Dimakis , C. Tzanakis

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

The molecular motion in heterogeneous media displays anomalous diffusion by the mean-squared displacement $\langle X^2(t) \rangle = 2 D t^\alpha$. Motivated by experiments reporting populations of the anomalous diffusion parameters $\alpha$…

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Microstructured particles are widely used in industries and state-of-the-art research and development. Diffusion of particles, particularly, controlled diffusion by a remotely applied field, has inspired novel applications ranging from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-30 Tianyu Yuan , Liping Liu , Jianxiang Wang

Anomalous transport in a tilted periodic potential is investigated numerically within the framework of the fractional Fokker-Planck dynamics via the underlying CTRW. An efficient numerical algorithm is developed which is applicable for an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , G. Schmid , P. Hänggi

The motion of contaminant particles through complex environments such as fractured rocks or porous sediments is often characterized by anomalous diffusion: the spread of the transported quantity is found to grow sublinearly in time due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marseguerra , A. Zoia

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

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