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A new approach to quantum Markov processes is developed and the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation is derived. The latter is examined to reproduce known results from classical and quantum physics. It was also applied to the phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Tsekov

We interpret a class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with reaction as gradient flows over the space of Radon measures equipped with the recently introduced Hellinger-Kantorovich distance. The driving entropy of the gradient flow is not…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Stanislav Kondratyev , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We study the convergence analysis for general degenerate and non-reversible stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We apply the Lyapunov method to analyze the Fokker-Planck equation, in which the Lyapunov functional is chosen as a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Qi Feng , Wuchen Li

We find new discrete $H^1$- and Poincar\'e-Friedrichs inequalities by studying the invertibility of the DG approximation of the flux for local spaces admitting M-decompositions. We then show how to use these inequalities to define and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Bernardo Cockburn , Guosheng Fu , Weifeng Qiu

We consider the relativistic, spatially inhomogeneous Fokker-Planck equation with an external confining potential. We prove the exponential time decay of solutions towards the global equilibrium in weighted $L^2$ and Sobolov spaces. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Anton Arnold , Gayrat Toshpulatov

We study a weakly non-linear Fokker-Planck equation with BGK heat thermostats in a spatially bounded domain with conservative Maxwell boundary conditions, presenting a space-dependent accommodation coefficient and a space-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 J Evans , R Medina

We consider the Kramers--Smoluchowski equation at a low temperature regime and show how semiclassical techniques developed for the study of the Witten Laplacian and Fokker--Planck equation provide quantitative results. This equation comes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Laurent Michel , Maciej Zworski

We study a particular generalisation of the classical Kramers model describing Brownian particles in the external potential. The generalised model includes the stochastic force which is modelled as an additive random noise that depends upon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-09 Vlad Bezuglyy

We study conservation laws and potential symmetries of (systems of) differential equations applying equivalence relations generated by point transformations between the equations. A Fokker-Planck equation and the Burgers equation are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nataliya M. Ivanova , Roman O. Popovych

We establish improved hypoelliptic estimates on the solutions of kinetic transport equations, using a suitable decomposition of the phase space. Our main result shows that the relative compactness in all variables of a bounded family…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Diogo Arsénio , Laure Saint-Raymond

We use the methods of commutator and fundamental solutions to establish averaging lemmas and hypoelliptic estimates for purely kinetic transport equations. Assuming certain amount of velocity regularity for solutions, we extend our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yuzhe Zhu

In this work, we aim at constructing numerical schemes, that are as efficient as possible in terms of cost and conservation of invariants, for the Vlasov--Fokker--Planck system coupled with Poisson or Amp\`ere equation. Splitting methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Ibrahim Almuslimani , Nicolas Crouseilles

We consider one-dimensional Fokker-Planck and Schr\"odinger equations with a potential which approaches a periodic function at spatial infinity. We extend the low-energy expansion method, which was introduced in previous papers, to be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Toru Miyazawa

We introduce a new scheme to analyze the kinetics of homogeneous nucleation in terms of a global order parameter. Our approach is based on the application of the internal degrees of freedom formalism to derive a kinetic equation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

We employ weak hypocoercivity methods to study the long-term behavior of operator semigroups generated by degenerate Kolmogorov operators with variable second-order coefficients, which solve the associated abstract Cauchy problem. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Alexander Bertram , Martin Grothaus

We consider Kramers-Fokker-Planck operators with general degenerate coefficients. We prove semiclassical hypocoercivity estimates for a large class of such operators. Then, we manage to prove Eyring-Kramers formulas for the bottom of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Loïs Delande

This paper is concerned with space inhomogeneous quantum Fokker-Planck equations posed on a classical kinetic phase space. The nonlinear factor $f(1\pm f)$ appears both in the transport term and in the collison part of the Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anton Arnold , Marlies Pirner , Gayrat Toshpulatov

In this paper, we study the Gevrey regularity of weak solution for a class of linear and quasilinear Fokker-Planck equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-21 Hua Chen , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

A covariant Fokker-Planck type equation for a simple gas and an equation for the Brownian motion are derived from a relativistic kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation. For the simple gas the dynamic friction four-vector and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Guillermo Chacón--Acosta , Gilberto M. Kremer

Starting from the Liouville equation, we derive the exact hierarchy of equations satisfied by the reduced distribution functions of the single species point vortex gas in two dimensions. Considering an expansion of the solution in powers of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. H. Chavanis