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The existence of global weak solutions to a parabolic energy-transport system in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model can be derived in the diffusion limit from a kinetic equation with a linear collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Gianluca Favre , Ansgar Jüngel , Christian Schmeiser , Nicola Zamponi

We introduce a notion of viscosity solutions for a nonlinear degenerate diffusion equation with a drift potential. We show that our notion of solutions coincide with the weak solutions defined via integration by parts. As an application of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-20 I. C. Kim , H. K. Lei

We prove the existence of solutions to a non-linear, non-local, degenerate equation which was previously derived as the formal hydrodynamic limit of an active Brownian particle system, where the particles are endowed with a position and an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Martin Burger , Simon Schulz

Two models are first presented, of one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) with temporal noise on the internal degree of freedom (i.e., the coin): (i) a model with both a coin-flip and a phase-flip channel, and (ii) a model with…

We justify rigorously the non-equilibrium-diffusion limit of the compressible Euler model coupled with a radiative transfer equation arising in radiation hydrodynamics. For general initial data, we establish the uniform existence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qiangchang Ju , Lei Li , Zhengce Zhang

We consider an optimal semiconductor design problem for the quantum drift diffusion (QDD) model in the semiclassical limit. The design question is formulated as a PDE constrained optimal control problem, where the doping profile acts as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-19 René Pinnau , Sebastian Rau , Florian Schneider , Oliver Tse

In this paper we study the diffusion approximation of a swarming model given by a system of interacting Langevin equations with nonlinear friction. The diffusion approximation requires the calculation of the drift and diffusion coefficients…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-08 V. Bonnaillie-Noël , J. A. Carrillo , T. Goudon , G. A. Pavliotis

We consider the drift-diffusion equation $u_t-\epsilon\Delta u + \nabla \cdot(u\nabla K^*u)=0$ in the whole space with global-in-time solutions bounded in all Sobolev spaces; for simplicity, we restrict ourselves to the model case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Piotr Biler , Alexandre Boritchev , Grzegorz Karch , Philippe Laurençot

One-dimensional non-equilibrium models of particles subjected to a coagulation-diffusion process are important in understanding non-equilibrium dynamics, and fluctuation-dissipation relation. We consider in this paper transport properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jean-Yves Fortin

We justify rigorously the equilibrium-diffusion limit of the model consists of a radiative transfer satisfied by the specific intensity of radiation coupled to a diffusion equation satisfied by the material temperature. For general initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Lei Li

We establish regularity and, under suitable assumptions, convergence to stationary states for weak solutions of a parabolic equation with a non-linear non-local drift term; this equation was derived from a model of active Brownian particles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Luca Alasio , Jessica Guerand , Simon Schulz

Aggregation equations, such as the parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel model, are known to have an optimal threshold for global existence vs. finite-time blow-up. In particular, if the diffusion is absent, then all smooth solutions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani

We determine the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability (KDQ) distribution associated to the stochastic instances of internal energy variations for the quantum system and environment particles in coherent Markovian collision models. In the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Marco Pezzutto , Gabriele De Chiara , Stefano Gherardini

The analysis of diffusive energy spreading in quantized chaotic driven systems, leads to a universal paradigm for the emergence of a quantum anomaly. In the classical approximation a driven chaotic system exhibits stochastic-like diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Itamar Sela , James Aisenberg , Tsampikos Kottos , Doron Cohen

Motivated by the possibility of noise to cure equations of finite-time blowup, recent work arXiv:2109.09892 by the second and third named authors showed that with quantifiable high probability, random diffusion restores global existence for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Shrey Aryan , Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani

Typically, aggregation-diffusion is modeled by parabolic equations that combine linear or nonlinear diffusion with a Fokker-Planck convection term. Under very general suitable assumptions, we prove that radial solutions of the evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Jose A. Carrillo , David Gómez-Castro , Juan Luis Vázquez

We study the dynamics of a quantum particle hopping on a simple cubic lattice and driven by a constant external force. It is coupled to an array of identical, independent thermal reservoirs consisting of free, massless Bose fields, one at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wojciech De Roeck , Juerg Froehlich , Kevin Schnelli

We analyse the quantum evolution of a particle moving in a potential in interaction with an environment of harmonic oscillators in a thermal state, using the quantum state diffusion (QSD) picture of Gisin and Percival, in which one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Jonathan Halliwell , Andreas Zoupas

The drift diffusion model (DDM) is a model of sequential sampling with diffusion (Brownian) signals, where the decision maker accumulates evidence until the process hits a stopping boundary, and then stops and chooses the alternative that…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-10-12 Drew Fudenberg , Whitney K. Newey , Philipp Strack , Tomasz Strzalecki

In this paper, we study the relationship between a diffusive model and a non-diffusive model which are both derived from the well-known Keller-Segel model, as a coefficient of diffusion $\varepsilon$ goes to zero. First, we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Hongyun Peng , Huanyao Wen , Changjiang Zhu