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In this note, we study the phase transitions arising in a modified Smoluchowski equation on the sphere with dipolar potential. This equation models the competition between alignment and diffusion, and the modification consists in taking the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

Suppose that particles are randomly distributed in $\bR^d$, and they are subject to identical stochastic motion independently of each other. The Smoluchowski process describes fluctuations of the number of particles in an observation region…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 A. Goldenshluger , R. Jacobovic

This article deals with the issues of global-in-time existence and asymptotic analysis of a fluid-particle interaction model in the so-called bubbling regime. The mixture occupies the physical space $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ which may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Jose A. Carrillo , Trygve Karper , Konstantina Trivisa

For a regular transient diffusion, we provide a decomposition of its last passage time to a certain state $\alpha$. This is accomplished by transforming the original diffusion into two diffusions using the occupation time of the area above…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Masahiko Egami , Rusudan Kevkhishvili

The path-integral representation of Smoluchowski equation is exploited to explore the stochastic dynamics of a tagged Brownian particle within an interacting system where hydrodynamic effects are neglected. In particular, this formalism is…

The Smoluchowski diffusion equation describes diffusion in the presence of external forces. Studying the mechanical response of soft materials to linear forces, such as shear, results in a boundary value problem involving an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa , Heiko Gimperlein

Many important properties of granular fluids can be represented by a system of hard spheres with inelastic collisions. Traditional methods of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics are effective for analysis and description of the inelastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey , James Lutsko

We present a simulation algorithm that accurately propagates a molecule pair using large time steps without the need to invoke the full exact analytical solutions of the Smoluchowski diffusion equation. Because the proposed method only uses…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Thorsten Prüstel , Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Due to its parabolic character, the diffusion equation exhibits instantaneous spatial spreading, and becomes unstable when Lorentz-boosted. According to the conventional interpretation, these features reflect a fundamental incompatibility…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Gavassino

The Smoluchowski coagulation-diffusion PDE is a system of partial differential equations modelling the evolution in time of mass-bearing Brownian particles which are subject to short-range pairwise coagulation. This survey presents a fairly…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alan Hammond

We present a new approach to real-space multiple-scattering theory for molecules and clusters, based on the two-potential (distorted-wave) Lippmann-Schwinger equation formalism. Our approach uses a recently developed form [D. L. Foulis,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 D. L. Foulis

Transport of cold atoms in shallow optical lattices is characterized by slow, nonstationary momentum relaxation. We here develop a projector operator method able to derive in this case a generalized Smoluchowski equation for the position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dechant , E. Lutz

An overview of the author's papers on the new approach to the Brownian coagulation theory and its generalization to the diffusion-limited reaction rate theory is presented. The traditional diffusion approach of the Smoluchowski theory for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Mikhail S. Veshchunov

The problem of diffraction of an electromagnetic plane wave by a perfectly conducting circular disk and its complementary problem, diffraction by a circular hole in an infinite conducting plate, are rigorously solved using the method of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Muhammad Adnan Shahzad

Using the Green function integral representation the Dyson-Schwinger equations are solved directly in Minkowski space. Essential ideas of the spectral techniques are discussed and applied on two renormalizable models: the Yukawa theory with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Vladimir Sauli

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

The linear response description for impurity diffusion in a granular fluid undergoing homogeneous cooling is developed in the preceeding paper. The formally exact Einstein and Green-Kubo expressions for the self-diffusion coefficient are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 James Lutsko , J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty

We study the solvability and homogenization of a thermal-diffusion reaction problem posed in a periodically perforated domain. The system describes the motion of populations of hot colloidal particles interacting together via Smoluchowski…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Oleh Krehel , Adrian Muntean , Toyohiko Aiki

We analyze the dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions modeled by a 2D Smoluchowski equation. We describe the long time behavior of the polymer suspensions in a fluid. When the flow influence is neglected the equation has a gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Xingyu Li , Arghir Zarnescu