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Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time ("strong anomaly") and share the interesting property that the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter , I. M. Sokolov

We investigate the overdamped Langevin motion for particles in a potential well that is asymptotically flat. When the potential well is deep compared to temperature, physical observables like the mean square displacement are essentially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-08 Celia Anteneodo , Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We investigate a Poisson-Nernst-Planck type system in three spatial dimensions where the strength of the electric drift depends on a possibly small parameter and the particles are assumed to diffuse quadratically. On grounds of the global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Jonathan Zinsl

We study convergence in variation of probability solutions of nonlinear Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations to stationary solutions. We obtain sufficient conditions for the exponential convergence of solutions to the stationary solution in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-09 V. I. Bogachev , M. Röckner , S. V. Shaposhnikov

We present a new approach to analyze homogeneous nucleation based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The starting point is the formulation of a Gibbs equation for the variations of the entropy of the system, whose state is characterized by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera Lopez , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

We address the well-posedness of subelliptic Fokker-Planck equations arising from stochastic control problems, as well as the properties of the associated diffusion processes. Here, the main difficulty arises from the possible polynomial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Lucia Caramellino , Cristian Mendico

We consider the one-dimensional free Fokker-Planck equation $\frac{\partial \mu\_t}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \left[ \mu\_t \left( \frac12 V' - H\mu\_t \right) \right]$, where $H$ denotes the Hilbert transform and $V$ is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Catherine Donati-Martin , Benjamin Groux , Mylene Maida

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a class of nonlocal Fokker--Planck equations defined by nonsingular, heavy-tailed convolution kernels and characterised by a scaling parameter $\e\in(0,1]$ and a fractional index…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Niccolò Tassi

We study the rate of convergence to equilibrium of the solutions to Fokker-Planck type equations with linear drift by means of Cram\'er and Energy distances, which have been recently widely used in problems related to AI, in particular for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gennaro Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani

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 introduce a new class of nonlocal kinetic equations and nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical formalism. These equations have a rich physical and mathematical structure that can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We consider a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the density of interacting and diffusive matter in the space of positions and velocities. We use a probabilistic interpretation to obtain convergence towards equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Francois Bolley , Arnaud Guillin , Florent Malrieu

In this paper, we study the nonlinear Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation with fixed collision frequency. We establish the global-in-time existence of weak solutions to the equation with large initial data. Moreover, we show that our solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Young-Pil Choi , Byung-Hoon Hwang , Yeongseok Yoo

We study a two-speed model with variant drift fields, which generalizes the Goldstein-Taylor model but the two advection fields are not necessarily in proportion. Due to the lack of a local equilibrium structure of the steady state,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xu'an Dou , Zhennan Zhou

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is obtained in the continuous limit of a one-dimensional lattice with an energy landscape of wells and barriers. Interaction is possible among particles in the same energy well. A parameter $\gamma$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Suárez , M. Hoyuelos , H. Mártin

We introduce a class of new one-dimensional linear Fokker--Planck type equations describing the evolution in time of the wealth in a multi-agent society. The equations are obtained, via a standard limiting procedure, by introducing an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Giulia Furioli , Ada Pulvirenti , Elide Terraneo , Giuseppe Toscani

Consider a difference equation which takes the k-th largest output of m functions of the previous m terms of the sequence. If the functions are also allowed to change periodically as the difference equation evolves this is analogous to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Tyrus Berry , Timothy Sauer

A kinetic equation for a dilute gas of hard spheres confined between two parallel plates separated a distance smaller than two particle dimeters is derived. It is a Boltzmann-like equation, which incorporates the effect of the confinement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

We develop a new method for proving hypocoercivity for a large class of linear kinetic equations with only one conservation law. Local mass conservation is assumed at the level of the collision kernel, while transport involves a confining…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-11 Jean Dolbeault , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

We revisit the traditional upwind schemes for linear conservation laws in the viewpoint of jump processes, allowing studying upwind schemes using probabilistic tools. In particular, for Fokker-Planck equations on $\mathbb{R}$, in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu