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We derive diffusive macroscopic equations for the particle and energy density of a system whose time evolution is described by a kinetic equation for the one particle position and velocity function f(r,v,t) that consists of a part that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro L. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz

Turbulent relative dispersion is studied theoretically with a focus on the evolution of probability distribution of the relative separation of two passive particles. A finite separation speed and a finite correlation of relative velocity,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeshi Ogasawara , Sadayoshi Toh

We propose and analyze a method to detect and characterize the drift of a nonstationary quantum source. It generalizes a standard measurement for detecting phase diffusion of laser fields to quantum systems of arbitrary Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lucia Schwarz , S. J. van Enk

We consider a drift-diffusion model, with an unknown function depending on the spatial variable and an additional structural variable, the amount of ingested lipid. The diffusion coefficient depends on this additional variable. The drift…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Cosmin Burtea , Nicolas Meunier , Clément Mouhot

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

We propose a unified diffusion-mobility relation which quantifies both quantum and classical levels of understanding on electron dynamics in ordered and disordered materials. This attempt overcomes the inability of classical Einstein…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-11 K. Navamani , Swapan K. Pati

This paper concerns the proof of the exponential rate of convergence of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation, with a drift term not being the gradient of a potential function and endowed by Robin type boundary conditions. This kind of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-24 J-A Carrillo , Simona Mancini , M. -B Tran

A fractional diffusion equation with advection term is rigorously derived from a kinetic transport model with a linear turning operator, featuring a fat-tailed equilibrium distribution and a small directional bias due to a given vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We study how the resolvent-family of a diffusion behaves, as thedrift grows to infinity. The limit turns out to be a selfadjoint pseudo-resolvent.After reduction of the underlying Hilbert-space, this pseudo-resolvent becomesa resolvent to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Brice Franke , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu

The Nelson stochastic mechanics of inhomogeneous quantum diffusion in flat spacetime with a tensor of diffusion can be described as a homogeneous one in a Riemannian manifold where this tensor of diffusion plays the role of a metric tensor.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-09 Zahid Zakir

A general reaction-diffusion equation with spatiotemporal delay and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is considered. The existence and stability of positive steady state solutions are proved via studying an equivalent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Wenjie Zuo , Junping Shi

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

A quantum analog of friction (understood as a completely positive, Markovian, translation-invariant and phenomenological model of dissipation) is known to be in odds with the detailed balance in the thermodynamic limit. We show that this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Denys I. Bondar , Tamar Seideman

The large-time asymptotics of the density matrix solving a drift-diffusion-Poisson model for the spin-polarized electron transport in semiconductors is proved. The equations are analyzed in a bounded domain with initial and Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Philipp Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel

We develop the kinetic theory of the flux-carrying Brownian motion recently introduced in the context of open quantum systems. This model constitutes an effective description of two-dimensional dissipative particles violating both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Antonio A. Valido

The global-in-time existence and uniqueness of bounded weak solutions to a spinorial matrix drift-diffusion model for semiconductors is proved. Developing the electron density matrix in the Pauli basis, the coefficients (charge density and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Ansgar Jüngel , Claudia Negulescu , Polina Shpartko

The invariance for the equation of fast diffusion in the 2D coordinate space has been proved, and its reduction to the 1D (with respect to the spatial variable) analog is demonstrated. On the basis of these results, new exact…

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We consider a spatially homogeneous advection-diffusion equation in which the diffusion tensor and drift velocity are time-independent, but otherwise general. We derive asymptotic expressions, valid at large distances from a steady point…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 John Grant , Michael Wilkinson

Convection-diffusion equations provide the basis for describing heat and mass transfer phenomena as well as processes of continuum mechanics. To handle flows in porous media, the fundamental issue is to model correctly the convective…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-08-29 A. Churbanov , P. Vabishchevich

This paper is devoted to existence and uniqueness results for classes of nonlinear diffusion equations (or systems) which may be viewed as regular perturbations of Wasserstein gradient flows. First, in the case. where the drift is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Guillaume Carlier , Maxime Laborde