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We study the magnetic energy of magnetic polymer composite materials as the average distance between magnetic particles vanishes. We model the position of these particles in the polymeric matrix as a stochastic lattice scaled by a small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-25 R. Alicandro , M. Cicalese , M. Ruf

We prove Strichartz estimates for the Schroedinger equation with an electromagnetic potential, in dimension $n\geq3$. The decay and regularity assumptions on the potentials are almost critical, i.e., close to the Coulomb case. In addition,…

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We study the discrete-to-continuum limit of ferromagnetic spin systems when the lattice spacing tends to zero. We assume that the atoms are part of a (maybe) non-periodic lattice close to a flat set in a lower dimensional space, typically a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Andrea Braides , Marco Cicalese , Matthias Ruf

The paper studies the spatial variation of the magnetization in a nonconducting magnetic sample with an excess number of magnons in comparison to the equilibrium. The phenomenon is considered using the Landau-Lifshits equation with…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-16 V. I. Sugakov

We derive a framework to compute optimal controls for problems with states in the space of probability measures. Since many optimal control problems constrained by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) modelling interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse

Stochastic thermodynamics provides an important framework to explore small physical systems where thermal fluctuations are inevitable. In the studies of stochastic thermodynamics, some thermodynamic quantities, such as the trajectory work,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-12 Rui Pan , Thai M. Hoang , Zhaoyu Fei , Tian Qiu , Jonghoon Ahn , Tongcang Li , H. T. Quan

We consider the kinetic transport equation that arise in the Boltzmann-Grad limit of the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz Gas. This equation has been obtained by extending the phase space of positions and velocities through the introduction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Francesca Pieroni

Using cylindrical coordinates, we consider position-dependent mass (PDM) charged particles moving under the influence of magnetic, Aharonov-Bohm flux, and a pseudoharmonic or a generalized Killingbeck-type potential fields. We implement the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Zeinab Algadhi , Omar Mustafa

We study the problem of sampling from a distribution $p^*(x) \propto \exp\left(-U(x)\right)$, where the function $U$ is $L$-smooth everywhere and $m$-strongly convex outside a ball of radius $R$, but potentially nonconvex inside this ball.…

A charged particle in a suitably strong magnetic field spirals along the field lines while slowly drifting transversely. This note provides a brief derivation of an effective Lagrangian formulation for the guiding-centre approximation that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Ted Jacobson

Many phenomenological and effective field-theoretical (EFT) applications of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the presence of a background magnetic field employ a simplifying assumption whereby the electromagnetic and the energy-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Giorgio Frangi , Matej Bajec , Guri K. Buza , Alexander Soloviev , Sašo Grozdanov

We propose a novel approach based on a Langevin equation for fluctuating motion of the center of mass of granular media fluidized by energy injection from a bottom plate. In this framework, the analytical solution of the Langevin equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jun'ichi Wakou , Masaharu Isobe

The local Hamiltonian problem consists of estimating the ground-state energy (given by the minimum eigenvalue) of a local quantum Hamiltonian. First, we show the existence of a good product-state approximation for the ground-state energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow

We construct an infinite particle/infinite volume Langevin dynamics on the space of configurations in $\R^d$ having velocities as marks. The construction is done via a limiting procedure using $N$-particle dynamics in cubes…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Florian Conrad , Martin Grothaus

The microcanonical statistical mechanics of a set of self-gravitating particles is analyzed in mean-field approach. In order to deal with an upper bounded entropy functional, a softened gravitational potential is used. The softening is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Follana , Victor Laliena

We consider a class of particle systems which appear in various applications such as approximation theory, plasticity, potential theory and space-filling designs. The positions of the particles on the real line are described as a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Patrick van Meurs , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

We apply well-established concepts of Langevin sampling to derive a new class of algorithms for the efficient computation of free energy differences of fluctuating particles embedded in a 'fast' membrane, i.e., a membrane that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Tobias Kies , Carsten Gräser , Luigi Delle Site , Ralf Kornhuber

We consider the model of Directed Polymers in an i.i.d. gaussian or bounded Environment in the $L^2$ region. We prove the convergence of the law of the environment seen by the particle. As a main technical step, we establish a lower tail…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Gregorio Moreno Flores

Recent rapid advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques resulted in an unprecedented abundance of diffusion data exhibiting complex behaviours, such the presence of power law tails of the msd and memory functions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-08 Jakub Ślęzak

Starting from kinetic theory description of massive spin-1/2 particles in presence of magnetic field, equations for relativistic dissipative non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics are obtained in the small polarization limit. We use a…