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We derive backward and forward fractional Schr\"odinger type of equations for the distribution of functionals of the path of a particle undergoing anomalous diffusion. Fractional substantial derivatives introduced by Friedrich and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-17 Lior Turgeman , Shai Carmi , Eli Barkai

This article provides a new theory for the analysis of forward and backward particle approximations of Feynman-Kac models. Such formulae are found in a wide variety of applications and their numerical (particle) approximation are required…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Hock Peng Chan , Pierre Del Moral , Ajay Jasra

A fractional reaction-diffusion equation is derived from a continuous time random walk model when the transport is dispersive. The exit from the encounter distance, which is described by the algebraic waiting time distribution of jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuhiko Seki , Mariusz Wojcik , M. Tachiya

Anomalous (or non-Fickian) diffusion has been widely found in fluid reactive transport and the traditional advection diffusion reaction equation based on Fickian diffusion is proved to be inadequate to predict this anomalous transport of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Hong Zhang , Guo-Hua Li

In this article, we prove a Feynman-Kac type result for a broad class of second order ordinary differential equations. The classical Feynman-Kac theorem says that the solution to a broad class of second order parabolic equations is the mean…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Zachary Selk , Harsha Honnappa

Fractional diffusion equations are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion processes where the characteristic displacement scales as a power of time. For processes lacking such scaling the corresponding description may be given by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Sokolov , A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter

On the basis of perturbed Kolmogorov backward equations and path integral representation, we unify the derivations of the linear response theory and transient fluctuation theorems for continuous diffusion processes from a backward point of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fei Liu , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

The fractional Feynman-Kac equations describe the distribution of functionals of non-Brownian motion, or anomalous diffusion, including two types called the forward and backward fractional Feynman-Kac equations, where the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Jiahui Hu , Jungang Wang , Zhanbin Yuan , Zongze Yang , Yufeng Nie

We analyze the relaxation dynamics of Feynman-Kac path integral kernel functions in terms of branching diffusion processes with killing. This sheds new light on the admissible path-wise description of the relaxation to equilibrium for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-23 P. Garbaczewski , M. Zaba

The unified description of diffusion processes that cross over from a ballistic behavior at short times to normal or anomalous diffusion (sub- or superdiffusion) at longer times is constructed on the basis of a non-Markovian generalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-26 Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Anatoly Zagorodny

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common mathematical models in the natural sciences and are used to model systems that combine reactions with diffusive motion. However, rather than normal diffusion, anomalous subdiffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Amanda M Alexander , Sean D Lawley

Text-book concepts of diffusion- versus kinetic-control are well-defined for reaction-kinetics involving macroscopic concentrations of diffusive reactants that are adequately described by rate-constants -- the inverse of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

We consider the wave propagation for a reaction-diffusion equation on the real line, with a random drift and Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) type nonlinear reaction. We show that when the average drift is positive, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dihang Guan , Hui He , Wenqing Hu , Jiaojiao Yang

This paper establishes a Feynman-Kac formula to represent the solution to general time inhomogeneous stochastic parabolic partial differential equations driven by multiplicative fractional Gaussian noises in bounded domain where L_t is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Yaozhong Hu , Qun Shi

We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-30 Arnab Pal , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Anupam Kundu

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

Aging, the process of growing old or maturing, is one of the most widely seen natural phenomena in the world. For the stochastic processes, sometimes the influence of aging can not be ignored. For example, in this paper, by analyzing the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Wanli Wang , Weihua Deng

Reaction-diffusion equations are one of the most common partial differential equations used to model physical phenomenon. They arise as the combination of two physical processes: a driving force $f(u)$ that depends on the state variable $u$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

The temporal Fokker-Plank equation [{\it J. Stat. Phys.}, {\bf 3/4}, 527 (2003)] or propagation-dispersion equation was derived to describe diffusive processes with temporal dispersion rather than spatial dispersion as in classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-01 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko