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Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

A mean-field Fokker-Planck equation approach to the dynamics of ferrofluids in the presence of a magnetic field and velocity gradients is proposed that incorporates magnetic dipole-dipole interactions of the colloidal particles. The model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Patrick Ilg , Siegfried Hess

We consider a large number $N$ of quantum particles coupled via a mean field interaction to another quantum system (reservoir). Our main result is an expansion for the averages of observables, both of the particles and of the reservoir, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Marco Merkli , Alireza Rafiyi

A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Hui Yu

Interacting particle systems are known for their ability to generate large-scale self-organized structures from simple local interaction rules between each agent and its neighbors. In addition to studying their emergent behavior, a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , David Poyato

We introduce a model of long-range interacting particles evolving under a stochastic Monte Carlo dynamics, in which possible increase or decrease in the values of the dynamical variables is accepted with preassigned probabilities. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

We present a classical kinetically constrained model of interacting particles on a triangular ladder, which displays diffusion and jamming and can be treated by means of a classical-quantum mapping. Interpreted as a theory of interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-16 Abhishek Raj , Vadim Oganesyan , Antonello Scardicchio

We present a generalization of Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory that accounts for intense electromagnetic fields. A strongly-radiating, possibly optically-thick plasma is decomposed into fragments, each comprising a charged particle together…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison

This contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of vehicles in freeway traffic which has been suggested for the evaluation of interaction potentials among vehicles (see preprint…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber

We consider a system of $N\gg 1$ interacting fermionic particles in three dimensions, confined in a periodic box of volume $1$, in the mean-field scaling. We assume that the interaction potential is bounded and small enough. We prove upper…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Christian Hainzl , Marcello Porta , Felix Rexze

A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

We present effective-field-theory results with unitarized interactions on the D-meson transport coefficients in a gas populated by light mesons and baryons at finite temperature and baryochemical potential. The Fokker-Planck equation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Juan M. Torres-Rincon , Luciano M. Abreu , Daniel Cabrera , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Laura Tolos

We consider Mckean-Vlasov type stochastic differential equations with multiplicative noise arising from the random vortex method. Such an equation can be viewed as the mean-field limit of interacting particle systems with singular…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jiawei Li , Zhongmin Qian

The accumulation of small particles is analyzed in stationary flows through channels of variable width at small Reynolds number. The combined influence of pressure, viscous drag and thermal fluctuations is described by means of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-09 Michael Schindler , Peter Talkner , Marcin Kostur , Peter Hanggi

The out-of-equilibrium mean-field dynamics of a model for wave-particle interaction is investigated. Such a model can be regarded as a general formulation for all those applications where the complex interplay between particles and fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Pierre de Buyl , Duccio Fanelli , Romain Bachelard , Giovanni De Ninno

Particles interacting with short-ranged potentials have attracted increasing interest, partly for their ability to model mesoscale systems such as colloids interacting via DNA or depletion. We consider the free energy landscape of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon , Steven J. Gortler , Michael P. Brenner

Fokker-Planck equations are extensively employed in various scientific fields as they characterise the behaviour of stochastic systems at the level of probability density functions. Although broadly used, they allow for analytical treatment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dimitra Maoutsa , Sebastian Reich , Manfred Opper

The mean-field limit of interacting diffusions without exchangeability, caused by weighted interactions and non-i.i.d. initial values, are investigated. The weights could be signed and unbounded. The result applies to a large class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Zhenfu Wang , Xianliang Zhao , Rongchan Zhu

We consider a class of weakly interacting particle systems of mean-field type. The interactions between the particles are encoded in a graph sequence, i.e., two particles are interacting if and only if they are connected in the underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Gianmarco Bet , Fabio Coppini , Francesca R. Nardi

By considering the master equation of the partially asymmetric diffusion process on a one-dimensional lattice, the most general boundary condition (i.e. interactions) for the multi-species reaction-diffusion processes is considered.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Alimohammadi , Y. Naimi