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We consider new connections between the problem of trend to equilibrium for the n-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation of statistical physics, and weighted Poincar\'e inequality. To this aim we consider a class of n-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 G. Furioli , A. Pulvirenti , E. Terraneo , G. Toscani

We show that for a subdiffusive continuous time random walk with scale-free waiting time distribution the first-passage dynamics on a finite interval can be optimised by introduction of a piecewise linear potential barrier. Analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vladimir Palyulin , Ralf Metzler

Employing time-dependent projection formalism, a Fokker-Planck equation with non-Markovian transport coefficients is derived for large amplitude collective motion. Properties of transport coefficients for diffusion processes in a potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Noboru Takigawa , Sakir Ayik , Sachie Kimura

We investigate the first-passage properties of a jump process with a constant drift, focusing on two key observables: the first-passage time $\tau$ and the number of jumps $n$ before the first-passage event. By mapping the problem onto an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-31 Ivan N. Burenev , Satya N. Majumdar

We derive an analytical expression for the transition path time (TPT) distribution for a one-dimensional particle crossing a parabolic barrier. The solution is expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the associated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-10 Michele Caraglio , Stefanie Put , Enrico Carlon , Carlo Vanderzande

We propose a new Neural Galerkin Normalizing Flow framework to approximate the transition probability density function of a diffusion process by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation with an atomic initial distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Riccardo Saporiti , Fabio Nobile

We study the kinetics of protein folding via statistical energy landscape theory. We concentrate on the local-connectivity case, where the configurational changes can only occur among neighboring states, with the folding progress described…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Chi-Lun Lee , George Stell , Jin Wang

For rotationally invariant first passage percolation (FPP) on the plane, we use a multi-scale argument to prove stretched exponential concentration of the first passage times at the scale of the standard deviation. Our results are proved…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Riddhipratim Basu , Vladas Sidoravicius , Allan Sly

We revisit the problem of Brownian diffusion with drift in order to study finite-size effects in the geometric Galton-Watson branching process. This is possible because of an exact mapping between one-dimensional random walks and geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Alvaro Corral , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Nicholas R. Moloney , Francesc Font-Clos

The nonequilibrium Fokker-Planck dynamics with a non-conservative drift field, in dimension $N\geq 2$, can be related with the non-Hermitian quantum mechanics in a real scalar potential $V$ and in a purely imaginary vector potential -$iA$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-31 P. Garbaczewski , M. Żaba

In this paper we identify the Fokker-Planck equation for (reflected) Sticky Brownian Motion as a Wasserstein gradient flow in the space of probability measures. The driving functional is the relative entropy with respect to a non-standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon , Filippo Santambrogio

This paper investigates the probability distribution of solutions to McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H>1/2. Our main contribution is the derivation of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Saloua Labed , Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

A possible mechanism leading to anomalous diffusion is the presence of long-range correlations in time between the displacements of the particles. Fractional Brownian motion, a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian process with stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Alexander H O Wada , Alex Warhover , Thomas Vojta

First-passage time (FPT) of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process is of immense interest in a variety of contexts. This paper considers an OU process with two boundaries, one of which is absorbing while the other one could be either reflecting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Khem Raj Ghusinga , Vaibhav Srivastava , Abhyudai Singh

We survey recent results on first-passage processes in unbounded cones and their applications to ordering of particles undergoing Brownian motion in one dimension. We first discuss the survival probability S(t) that a diffusing particle, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-14 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We present a study on the dynamics of a system consisting of a pair of hardcore particles diffusing with different rates. We solved the drift-diffusion equation for this model in the case when one particle, labeled F, drifts and diffuses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. L. Narasimhan , A. Baumgaertner

The present work investigates the asymptotic behaviors, at the zero-noise limit, of the first collision-time and first collision-location related to a pair of self-stabilizing diffusions and of their related particle approximations. These…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Jean-Francois Jabir , Julian Tugaut

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

In this article, we study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck (FP) equation that arises as a mean-field (macroscopic) approximation of bounded confidence opinion dynamics, where opinions are influenced by environmental noises and opinions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 M. A. S. Kolarijani , A. V. Proskurnikov , P. Mohajerin Esfahani

We derive a self-duality relation for a one-dimensional model of branching and annihilating random walkers with an even number of offsprings. With the duality relation and by deriving exact results in some limiting cases involving fast…

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