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In the diffusive hydrodynamic limit for a symmetric interacting particle system (such as the exclusion process, the zero range process, the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau model, the energy exchange model), a possibly non-linear diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Makiko Sasada

We present four quantum algorithms for solving a multidimensional drift-diffusion equation. They rely on a quantum linear system solver, a quantum Hamiltonian simulation, a quantum random walk, and the quantum Fourier transform. We compare…

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Model calculations that include the effects of irreversible, environmental couplings on top of a coupled-channels dynamical description of the collision of two complex nuclei are presented. The Liouville-von Neumann equation for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexis Diaz-Torres , David Hinde , Mahananda Dasgupta , Gerard Milburn , Jeff Tostevin

We provide a derivation of quantum theory in which the existence of an energy observable that generates the reversible dynamics follows directly from information-theoretic principles. Our first principle is that every reversible dynamics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lorenzo Giannelli , Giulio Chiribella

We study transport in a one-dimensional lattice system with two conserved quantities -- `volume' and energy. Considering a slowly evolving local equilibrium state that is slightly deviated from an underlying global equilibrium, we estimate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 Anupam Kundu

We show that there exist solutions of drift-diffusion equations in two dimensions with divergence-free super-critical drifts, that become discontinuous in finite time. We consider classical as well as fractional diffusion. However, in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Luis Silvestre , Vlad Vicol , Andrej Zlatos

Two drift-diffusion models for the quantum transport of electrons in graphene, which account for the spin degree of freedom, are derived from a spinorial Wigner equation with relaxation-time or mass- and spin-conserving matrix collision…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

We theoretically investigate the non-equilibrium quantum dynamical theory of a quantum dot system coupled to fermionic reservoirs using the recently developed stochastic fermionic quantum state diffusion (FQSD) equation. The exact or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Wufu Shi , Yusui Chen , Lihui Sun , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

This paper gives a spectral approach to time asymptotics of collisionless transport semi-groups with general diffuse boundary operators. The strong stability of the invariant density is derived from the classical Ingham theorem. A recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Bertrand Lods , Mustapha Mokhtar-Kharroubi

We study the long-time dynamics of the nonlinear processes modeled by diffusion-transport partial differential equations in non-divergence form with drifts. The solutions are subject to some inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Luan Hoang , Akif Ibragimov

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal

This paper focuses on a drift-diffusion system subjected to boundedly non dissipative Robin boundary conditions. A general existence result with large initial conditions is established by using suitable L1, L2 and trace estimates. Finally,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Arnaud Heibig , Adrien Petrov , Christian Reichert

In this note, we connect two seemingly unrelated objects: On the one hand is a two-dimensional drift-diffusion process $X$ with divergence-free and time-independent drift $b$. The drift is given by a stationary Gaussian ensemble, and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Peter Morfe , Felix Otto , Christian Wagner

The classical limit problem of quantum mechanics is revisited on the basis of a scheme that enables a quantitative study of the way the quantum-classical agreement emerges while going through the intermediate mass range between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dipankar Home , Alok Kumar Pan , Arka Banerjee

We consider the drift-diffusion equation $$ u_t-\varepsilon \Delta u+\nabla\cdot(u\nabla K\star u)=0 $$ in the whole space with global-in-time bounded solutions. Mass concentration phenomena for radially symmetric solutions of this equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Piotr Biler , Alexandre Boritchev , Grzegorz Karch , Philippe Laurençot

This paper is a companion to 'Quantum Diffusion with Drift and the Einstein Relation I' (jointly submitted to arXiv). Its purpose is to describe and prove a certain number of technical results used in 'Quantum Diffusion with Drift and the…

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

A non-equilibrium theory describing the charge qubit dynamics measured by a quantum point contact is developed based on Schwinger-Keldysh's approach. Using the real-time diagram technique, we derive the master equation to all orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ming-Tsung Lee , Wei-Min Zhang

In this work, surface diffusion is studied with a different perspective by showing how the corresponding open dynamics is transformed when passing, in a continuous and smooth way, from a pure quantum regime to a full classical regime; the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 E. E. Torres-Miyares , S. Miret-Artés

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

In [1], the Authors rigorously establish the relaxation limit from the Quantum Navier Stokes Poisson (QNSP) system to the Quantum Drift Diffusion (QDD) equation, while providing only a brief outline of the global existence theory for weak…

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