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The analysis of local minima in time series data and random landscapes is essential across numerous scientific disciplines, offering critical insights into system dynamics. Recently, Kundu, Majumdar, and Schehr derived the exact…

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This work is devoted to deriving the Onsager-Machlup action functional for stochastic partial differential equations with (non-Gaussian) Levy process as well as Gaussian Brownian motion. This is achieved by applying the Girsanov…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Jianyu Hu , Jinqiao Duan

The approach to the theory of a relativistic random process is considered by the path integral method as Brownian motion taking into account the boundedness of speed. An attempt was made to build a relativistic analogue of the Wiener…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-30 E. A. Kurianovich , A. I. Mikhailov , I. V. Volovich

Adsorption is a relevant process in many fields, such as product manufacturing or pollution remediation in porous materials. Adsorption takes place at the molecular scale, amenable to be modeled by Lagrangian numerical methods. We have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-15 Maryam Rahbaralam , Amir Abdollahi , Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia , Xavier Sanchez-Vila

We propose a Langevin equation to describe the quantum Brownian motion of bounded particles based on a distinctive formulation concerning both the fluctuation and dissipation forces. The fluctuation force is similar to that employed in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mário J. de Oliveira

We obtain an explicit solution for the static Kullback--Leibler (KL) unbalanced optimal transport problem between finite non-degenerate Gaussian measures with quadratic cost, two independent positive marginal relaxation parameters, and no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

We consider random Schr\"odinger equations on $\bR^d$ or $\bZ^d$ for $d\ge 3$ with uncorrelated, identically distributed random potential. Denote by $\lambda$ the coupling constant and $\psi_t$ the solution with initial data $\psi_0$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo Erdos , Manfred Salmhofer , Horng-Tzer Yau

We present a simple scheme to evaluate linear response functions including quantum fluctuation corrections on top of the Gutzwiller approximation. The method is derived for a generic multi-band lattice Hamiltonian without any assumption…

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We propose a stochastic method to generate exactly the overdamped Langevin dynamics of semi-flexible Gaussian chains, conditioned to evolve between given initial and final conformations in a preassigned time. The initial and final…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-18 Cristian Micheletti , Henri Orland

We consider the problem of sampling from a probability distribution $\pi$ which admits a density w.r.t. a dominating measure. It is well known that this can be written as an optimisation problem over the space of probability distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-06 Francesca Romana Crucinio

We present a new efficient transition pathway search method based on the least action principle and the Gaussian process regression method. Most pathway search methods developed so far rely on string representations, which approximate a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 JaeHwan Shim , Juyong Lee , Jaejun Yu

Diffusion of small particles is omnipresent in a plentiful number of processes occurring in Nature. As such, it is widely studied and exerted in almost all branches of sciences. It constitutes such a broad and often rather complex subject…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jakub Spiechowicz , Ivan G. Marchenko , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is a fundamental concept in information theory that quantifies the discrepancy between two probability distributions. In the context of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), it serves as a central regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Andrés Muñoz , Rodrigo Ramele

Assuming an effective quadratic Hamiltonian, we derive an approximate, linear stochastic equation of motion for the density-fluctuations in liquids, composed of overdamped Brownian particles. From this approach, time dependent two point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Matthias Krüger , David S. Dean

Starting from the Caldeira-Leggett (CL) model, we derive the equation describing the Quantum Brownian motion, which has been originally proposed by Dekker purely from phenomenological basis containing extra anomalous diffusion terms.…

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Optimization in the Bures-Wasserstein space has been gaining popularity in the machine learning community since it draws connections between variational inference and Wasserstein gradient flows. The variational inference objective function…

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Surface diffusion of small adsorbates is analyzed in terms of the so-called intermediate scattering function and dynamic structure factor, observables in experiments using the well-known quasielastic Helium atom scattering and Helium spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Miret-Artés

We derive novel low-temperature asymptotics for the spectrum of the infinitesimal generator of the overdamped Langevin dynamics. The novelty is that this operator is endowed with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions at the boundary of a domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Noé Blassel , Tony Lelièvre , Gabriel Stoltz

Analytical models describing the motion of colloidal particles in given velocity fields are presented. In addition to local approaches, leading to well known master equations such as the Langevin and the Fokker-Planck equations, a global…

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