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We develop a semiclassical density functional theory in the context of quantum dots. Coulomb blockade conductance oscillations have been measured in several experiments using nanostructured quantum dots. The statistical properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Denis Ullmo , Tatsuro Nagano , Steven Tomsovic , Harold U. Baranger

The strong friction regime at low temperatures is analyzed systematically starting from the formally exact path integral expression for the reduced dynamics. This quantum Smoluchowski regime allows for a type of semiclassical treatment in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Stefan A. Maier , Joachim Ankerhold

A new approach for the weak noise analysis of exit problems removes an intrinsic contradiction of an existing method. It applies for both the mean time and the location of the exits; novel outcomes mainly concern the exits from entire…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Dietrich Ryter

In this paper we present a generic form of the cosmological Equation of State derived from the formalism of Statistical Mechanics, assuming that a cosmic acceleration scenario can be interpreted as a system of quasi-particles. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Elías Castellanos , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

We study two asymptotic problems for the Langevin equation with variable friction coefficient. The first is the small mass asymptotic behavior, known as the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation, of the Langevin equation with strictly positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hitoshi Ishii , Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Hung V. Tran

On the basis of the dynamical-quantization approach to open quantum systems, we can derive a non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett quantum master equation as well as a non-Markovian quantum Smoluchowski equation in phase space. On the one hand, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. O. Bolivar

This work is devoted to infinite-energy solutions of semi-linear wave equations in unbounded smooth domains of $\mathbb{R}^3$ with fractional damping of the form $(-\Delta_x+1)^\frac{1}{2}\partial_t u$. The work extends previously known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Anton Savostianov

We explore the relation between fast waves, damping and imposed noise for different scalings by considering the singularly perturbed stochastic nonlinear wave equations \nu u_{tt}+u_t=\D u+f(u)+\nu^\alpha\dot{W} on a bounded spatial domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Wei Wang , Yan Lv , A. J. Roberts

We study Smoluchowski-Poisson equation in two space dimensions provided with Dirichlet boundary condition for the Poisson part. For this equation several profiles of blowup solution have been noticed. Here we show collapse mass quantization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Takashi Suzuki

A finite-dimensional quantum system is coupled to a bath of oscillators in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T>0$. We show that for fixed, small values of the coupling constant $\lambda$, the true reduced dynamics of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marco Merkli

This paper outlines an approach to the approximation of probability density functions by quadratic forms of weighted orthonormal basis functions with positive semi-definite Hermitian matrices of unit trace. Such matrices are called…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Igor G. Vladimirov

We present a general construction of semiglobal scattering solutions to quasilinear wave equations in a neighbourhood of spacelike infinity including past and future null infinity, where the scattering data are posed on an ingoing null cone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Istvan Kadar , Lionor Kehrberger

We prove a limit theorem for quantum stochastic differential equations with unbounded coefficients which extends the Trotter-Kato theorem for contraction semigroups. From this theorem, general results on the convergence of approximations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 Luc Bouten , Ramon van Handel , Andrew Silberfarb

In the paper, the Kolmogorov distance is used to study the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for diffusions with jumps. The convergence rate is derived by Malliavin calculus.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Chungang Shi

We consider weakly damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations perturbed by a noise of small amplitude. The small noise is either complex and of additive type or real and of multiplicative type. It is white in time and colored in space. Zero…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-19 Eric Gautier

We consider the Kramers--Smoluchowski equation at a low temperature regime and show how semiclassical techniques developed for the study of the Witten Laplacian and Fokker--Planck equation provide quantitative results. This equation comes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Laurent Michel , Maciej Zworski

We present a general formalism able to derive the kinetic equations of polymer dynamics. It is based on the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to analyze the irreversible processes taking place in the conformational space of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

We establish Freidlin-Wentzell results for a nonlinear ordinary differential equation starting close to the stable state $0$, say, subject to a perturbation by a stochastic integral which is driven by an $\varepsilon$-small and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-22 André de Oliveira Gomes , Michael A. Högele

We construct a kinetic equation simulating the behavior of degenerate quantum Bose gases with the collision rate proportional to the molecule velocity. We obtain an analytic solution of the half--space boundary--value Smoluchowski problem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Gradient descent dynamics in complex energy landscapes, i.e. featuring multiple minima, finds application in many different problems, from soft matter to machine learning. Here, we analyze one of the simplest examples, namely that of soft…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alessandro Manacorda , Francesco Zamponi