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In this paper we consider the long time asymptotics of a linear version of the Smoluchowski equation which describes the evolution of a tagged particle moving at constant speed in a random distribution of fixed particles. The volumes $v$ of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Barbara Niethammer , Alessia Nota , Sebastian Throm , Juan J. L. Velázquez

Diffusive scaling of position moments and a central limit theorem are obtained for the mean position of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice and subject to a random potential consisting of a large static part and a small part that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Jeffrey Schenker

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

Transmission probabilities of the scattering problem with a position dependent mass are studied. After sketching the basis of the theory, within the context of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for spatially varying effective mass, the simplest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ramazan Koc , Mehmet Koca , Gultekin Sahinoglu

The Smoluchowski coagulation-diffusion PDE is a system of partial differential equations modelling the evolution in time of mass-bearing Brownian particles which are subject to short-range pairwise coagulation. This survey presents a fairly…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alan Hammond

The time dependence of the survival probability, S(t), is determined for diffusing particles in two dimensions which are also driven by a random unidirectional zero-mean velocity field, v_x(y). For a semi-infinite system with unbounded y…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sidney Redner

We analyze the dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions modeled by a 2D Smoluchowski equation. We describe the long time behavior of the polymer suspensions in a fluid. When the flow influence is neglected the equation has a gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Xingyu Li , Arghir Zarnescu

An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 M. A. Malkov

Quantum escape of a particle via a time-dependent confining potential in a semi-infinite one-dimensional space is discussed. We describe the time-evolution of escape states in terms of scattering states of the quantum open system, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Tooru Taniguchi , Shin-ichi Sawada

Diffraction in time of a particle confined in a box which its walls are removed suddenly at $t=0$ is studied. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is discussed analytically and numerically for various initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 S. V. Mousavi

We study a Brownian particle diffusing under a time-modulated stochastic resetting mechanism to a fixed position. The rate of resetting r(t) is a function of the time t since the last reset event. We derive a sufficient condition on r(t)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-18 Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu , Martin R. Evans

Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

We provide a new approach to solve one dimension Fokker-Planck equation in the Laplace domain for the case where a particle is evolving in a potential energy curve in the presence of general delocalized sink. We also calculate rate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Chinmoy Samanta

We propose a general expression for the probability distribution of real-valued tunneling times of a localized particle, as measured by the Salecker-Wigner-Peres quantum clock. This general expression is used to obtain the distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 José T. Lunardi , Luiz A. Manzoni

In the present report, we have introduced the Fredholm integral method to solve the Smoluchowski equation in the Laplace domain. We get an exact semi-analytical solution for the linear potential energy curve in the dynamic diffusion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Chinmoy Samanta , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Different sets of metastable states can be reached in glassy systems below some transition temperature depending on initial conditions and details of the dynamics. This is investigated for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-13 Heinz Horner

Based on our previous study [IS3] on the stationary scattering theory for the Schrodinger operator on a manifold possessing an escape function we complete our investigation by doing the time-dependent counterpart. A particular class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Kenichi Ito , Erik Skibsted

We study the relaxation of a diffusive particle confined in an arbitrary external potential and subject to a non-Markovian resetting protocol. With a constant rate $r$, a previous time $\tau$ between the initial time and the present time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Denis Boyer , Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

In this work, I derive the time-dependent probability density function of classical observables using the Hamiltonian mechanics approach, extending the notion of fluctuation theorems for any observables. In particular, the time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-13 Pierre Nazé

An exact time-dependent solution for the wave function $\psi(r,t)$ of a particle moving in the presence of an asymmetric rectangular well/barrier potential varying in one dimension is obtained by applying a novel for this problem approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Victor F. Los , Nicholas V. Los