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We present new point of view on the old problem, the Kramers problem. The passage from the Fokker-Planck equation to the Smoluchowski equation, including corrections to the Smoluchowski current, is treated through an asymptotic expansion of…

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Molecular dynamics study of a thin (one to five layers) lubricant film between two substrates in moving contact are performed using Langevin equations with an external damping coefficient depending on distance and velocity of atoms relative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 O. M. Braun , M. Peyrard

We investigate the convergence, in the small mass limit, of the stationary solutions of a class of stochastic damped wave equations, where the friction coefficient depends on the state and the noisy perturbation if of multiplicative type.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie

Quantum Brownian motion in the strong friction limit is studied based on the exact path integral formulation of dissipative systems. In this limit the time-nonlocal reduced dynamics can be cast into an effective equation of motion, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Philip Pechukas

The quantum Langevin equation as obtained from the independent-oscillator model describes a strong-coupling situation, devoid of the Born-Markov approximation that is employed in the context of the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Aritra Ghosh , Sushanta Dattagupta

We initiate the study of the asymptotic behavior of small solutions to one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equations with variable coefficient quadratic nonlinearities. The main discovery in this work is a striking resonant interaction between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Hans Lindblad , Jonas Luhrmann , Avy Soffer

We investigate the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for the one-dimensional periodic variational wave equation with state-dependent damping and additive noise. We show that weak ``dissipative'' solutions converge to solutions of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Billel Guelmame , Julien Vovelle

We establish Freidlin-Wentzell results for a nonlinear ordinary differential equation starting close to the stable state $0$, say, subject to a perturbation by a stochastic integral which is driven by an $\varepsilon$-small and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-22 André de Oliveira Gomes , Michael A. Högele

We study the small mass limit of the equation describing planar motion of a charged particle of a small mass $\mu$ in a force field, containing a magnetic component, perturbed by a stochastic term. We regularize the problem by adding a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Sandra Cerrai , Jan Wehr , Yichun Zhu

Non-Markovian stochastic Langevin-like equations of motion are compared to their corresponding Markovian (local) approximations. The validity of the local approximation for these equations, when contrasted with the fully nonlocal ones, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-23 R. L. S. Farias , Rudnei O. Ramos , L. A. da Silva

In this paper, we first investigate the monotonicity and limit problem of the fractional integral functions. By fixed point theorem and these new results of the fractional integral functions, we present that the Riemann-Liouville fractional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tao Zhu

The diffusive dynamics of a particle in a medium with space-dependent friction coefficient is studied within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. In this description, the ambiguous interpretation of the stochastic integral,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

By applying Rohlin's result on the classification of homomorphisms of Lebesgue space, the random inertial manifold of a stochastic damped nonlinear wave equations with singular perturbation is proved to be approximated almost surely by that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Yan Lv , Wei Wang , Anthony Roberts

We asymptotically derive a non-linear Langevin-like equation with non-Gaussian white noise for a wide class of stochastic systems associated with multiple stochastic environments, by developing the expansion method in our previous paper [K.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-04 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Takahiro Sagawa , Hisao Hayakawa

In this paper we consider the long time asymptotics of a linear version of the Smoluchowski equation which describes the evolution of a tagged particle moving at constant speed in a random distribution of fixed particles. The volumes $v$ of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Barbara Niethammer , Alessia Nota , Sebastian Throm , Juan J. L. Velázquez

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

We study the small-mass limit, also known as the Smoluchowski-Kramers diffusion approximation (see \cite{kra} and \cite{smolu}), for a system of stochastic damped wave equations, whose solution is constrained to live in the unitary sphere…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie

We solve the initial value problem for the linearized mean field Kramers equation describing Brownian particles with long-range interactions in the $N\rightarrow +\infty$ limit. We show that the dielectric function can be expressed in terms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The long-time/large-scale, small-friction asymptotic for the one dimensional Langevin equation with a periodic potential is studied in this paper. It is shown that the Freidlin-Wentzell and central limit theorem (homogenization) limits…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Martin Hairer , Grigorios Pavliotis

The asymptotic solution for the Painleve-2 equation with small parameter is considered. The solution has algebraic behavior before point $t_*$ and fast oscillating behavior after the point $t_*$. In the transition layer the behavior of the…

solv-int · Physics 2009-09-25 O. M. Kiselev