English
Related papers

Related papers: Hypocoercive relaxation to equilibrium for some ki…

200 papers

Systems with long range interactions present generically the formation of quasi-stationary long-lived non-equilibrium states. These states relax to Boltzmann equilibrium following a dynamics which is not well understood. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Marcos

This paper is concerned with finding Fokker-Planck equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with the fastest exponential decay towards a given equilibrium. For a prescribed, anisotropic Gaussian we determine a non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equation with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Anton Arnold , Beatrice Signorello

We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Anton Arnold , Jan Erb

We introduce a new probabilistic approach to quantify convergence to equilibrium for (kinetic) Langevin processes. In contrast to previous analytic approaches that focus on the associated kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, our approach is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Andreas Eberle , Arnaud Guillin , Raphael Zimmer

The relaxation to equilibrium in many systems which show strange kinetics is described by fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPEs). These can be considered as phenomenological equations of linear nonequilibrium theory. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. M. Sokolov

We consider hypoelliptic equations of kinetic Fokker-Planck type, also known as Kolmogorov or ultraparabolic equations, with rough coefficients in the drift-diffusion operator. We give novel short quantitative proofs of the De Giorgi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Jessica Guerand , Clément Mouhot

We propose a third order dynamical system for solving a nonlinear equation in Hilbert spaces where the operator is cocoercive with respect to the solutions set. Under mild conditions on the parameters, we establish the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Pham Viet Hai , Phan Tu Vuong

We examine the validity of the Fokker-Planck equation with linear force coefficients as an approximation to the kinetic equation of nucleation in homogeneous isothermal multicomponent condensation. Starting with a discrete equation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein , Mark Swihart

We study the exponential convergence to the stationary state for nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, by a perturbative approach based on hypocoercive techniques developed for equilibrium Langevin dynamics. The Hamiltonian and overdamped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Alessandra Iacobucci , Stefano Olla , Gabriel Stoltz

In this article, we are interested in the asymptotic analysis of a finite volume scheme for one dimensional linear kinetic equations, with either Fokker-Planck or linearized BGK collision operator. Thanks to appropriate uniform estimates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Maxime Herda , Thomas Rey

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

We propose a kinetic relaxation-model to describe a generation-recombination reaction of two species. The decay to equilibrium is studied by two recent methods for proving hypocoercivity of the linearized equations. Exponential decay of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Lukas Neumann , Christian Schmeiser

In this paper we study second order stochastic differential equations with measurable and density-distribution dependent coefficients. Through establishing a maximum principle for kinetic Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Xicheng Zhang

This note provides a simple derivation of the overdamped approximation for kinetic (or underdamped) equilibrium Langevin dynamics, in cases where certain coefficients depend on the position variable. The equivalent small-mass limit of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Noé Blassel

It has recently been shown that relaxation of the rotational energy of hot non-equlibrium photofragments (i) slows down significantly with the increase of their initial rotational temperature and (ii) differs dramatically from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. F. Gelin , D. S. Kosov

We consider kinetic Fokker-Planck (or Vlasov-Fokker-Planck) equations on the torus with Maxwellian or fat tail local equilibria. Results based on weak norms have recently been achieved by S. Armstrong and J.-C. Mourrat in case of Maxwellian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Giovanni Brigati

We give a geometric formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kramer equations for a particle moving on a Lie algebra under the influence of a dissipative and a random force. Special cases of interest are fluid mechanics, the Stochastic Loewner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 S. G. Rajeev

In this note we show how a initial value problem for a relaxation process governed by a differential equation of non-integer order with a constant coefficient may be equivalent to that of a differential equation of the first order with a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Francesco Mainardi

Aiming to establish a rigorous link between macroscopic random motion (described e.g. by Langevin-type theories) and microscopic dynamics, we have undertaken a kinetic-theoretical study of the dynamics of a classical test-particle weakly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Kourakis , A. P. Grecos

We consider the Kinetic Fokker-Planck (FKP) equation in a domain with Maxwell reflection condition on the boundary. We establish the ultracontractivity of the associated semigroup and the hypocoercivity of the associated operator. We deduce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Kleber Carrapatoso , Stéphane Mischler