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Statistical invariance of Wiener increments under SO(n) rotations provides a notion of gauge transformation of state-dependent Brownian motion. We show that the stochastic dynamics of non gauge-invariant systems is not unambiguously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-06 Matteo Polettini

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

In this paper we introduce a novel method to simulate lateral diffusion of inclusions in a fluctuating membrane. The regarded systems are governed by two dynamic processes: the height fluctuations of the membrane and the diffusion of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Stefan M. Leitenberger , Udo Seifert

We derive a stochastic wave equation for an inflaton in an environment of an infinite number of fields. We study solutions of the linearized stochastic evolution equation in an expanding universe. The Fokker-Planck equation for the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 Z. Haba

We prove the existence of weak solutions of a class of multi-species cross-diffusion systems as well as the propagation of chaos result by means of nonlocal approximation of the nonlinear diffusion terms, coupling methods and compactness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Shuchen Guo

We study stochastic motion under a nonlinear frictional force that levels off with increasing velocity. Specifically, our frictional force is of the so-called Coulomb-tanh type. At small speed, it increases approximately linearly with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-13 Theo Lequy , Andreas M. Menzel

Systems of particles with long range interactions present two important processes: first, the formation of out-of-equilibrium quasi-stationary states (QSS), and the collisional relaxation towards Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium in a much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Fernanda P. C. Benetti , Bruno Marcos

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq

We investigate the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a washboard potential with space dependent friction coefficient. Analytical expressions have been obtained for current and diffusion coefficient. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

Diffusion in nonhomogeneous media is described by a dynamical process driven by a general Levy noise and subordinated to a random time; the subordinator depends on the position. This problem is approximated by a multiplicative process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

The spatially homogeneous Vlasov-Nordstr\"{o}m-Fokker-Planck system is known to exhibit nontrivial large time behavior, naturally leading to weak diffusion of the Fokker-Planck operator. This weak diffusion, combined with the singularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Shengchuang Chang , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang

In inhomogeneous environments, the correct expression of the diffusive flux is often not given by the Fick's law $\Gamma = - D \nabla n $. The most general hydrodynamic equation modelling diffusion is indeed the Fokker-Planck Equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Sattin

We derive the Boltzmann equation for the rotranslational dynamics of an arbitrary convex rigid body in a rarefied gas. It yields as a limiting case the Fokker-Planck equation accounting for friction, diffusion, and nonconservative drift…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-29 Lukas Martinetz , Klaus Hornberger , Benjamin A. Stickler

A kinetic-fluid model describing the evolutions of disperse two-phase flows is considered. The model consists of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation for the particles (disperse phase) coupled with the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Fucai Li , Yanmin Mu , Dehua Wang

The fluctuation-dissipation theory is grounded on the Langevin condition expressing the local independence between the thermal force and the particle velocity history. Upon hydrodynamic grounds, it is reasonable to relax this condition in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Massimiliano Giona , Giuseppe Procopio , Chiara Pezzotti

We obtain within Fokker-Planck dynamics an explicit generalization of Einstein's relation between drag, diffusion and equilibrium distribution for a spatially homogeneous system, considering both the transverse and longitudinal diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Brian Walton , Johann Rafelski

We explain the ubiquity and extremely slow evolution of non gaussian out-of-equilibrium distributions for the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, by means of traditional kinetic theory. Deriving the Fokker-Planck equation for a test particle, one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois

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…

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In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of an $N$ particles system evolving according the gradient flow of an energy functional. The particle system is a consistent approximation of the Lagrangian formulation of a one parameter family of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-31 V. Calvez , L. Corrias