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We study the recovery of one-dimensional semipermeable barriers for a stochastic process in a planar domain. The considered process acts like Brownian motion when away from the barriers and is reflected upon contact until a sufficient but…

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We study the statistical properties of the variation of the kinetic energy of a spherical Brownian particle that freely moves in an incompressible fluid at constant temperature. Based on the underdamped version of the generalized Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

The escape phenomenon, mainly caused by thermal effects, is known as an obstacle to the further practical application of optical levitation system in vacuum. Irregular photophoresis induced by thermal effects can act as an amplifier of…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-16 Mengzhu Hu , Nan Li , Zhenhai Fu , Yizhou Zhang , Wenqiang Li , Huizhu Hu

Motivated by the phenomenon of transport barriers in fusion plasma devices, we write a mathematical model of heat dispersion in a turbulent fluid with a transport barrier, properly idealized; in a scaling limit of the turbulence model with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Olga Aryasova , Franco Flandoli , Andrey Pilipenko

The statistics of the diffusive motion of particles often serve as an experimental proxy for their interaction with the environment. However, inferring the physical properties from the observed trajectories is challenging. Inspired by a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Amit Federbush , Amit Moscovich , Yohai Bar-Sinai

This paper deals with optimal prediction in a regime-switching model driven by a continuous-time Markov chain. We extend existing results for geometric Brownian motion by deriving optimal stopping strategies that depend on the current…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Yue Liu , Nicolas Privault

A framework for performant Brownian Dynamics (BD) many-body simulations with adaptive timestepping is presented. Contrary to the Euler-Maruyama scheme in common non-adaptive BD, we employ an embedded Heun-Euler integrator for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-11 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

Sticky Brownian motion is the simplest example of a diffusion process that can spend finite time both in the interior of a domain and on its boundary. It arises in various applications such as in biology, materials science, and finance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

We study a generalized geometric Brownian motion framework that incorporates both entries of new units and exit mechanisms for the current population, extending earlier stochastic resetting models where these rates are treated as identical.…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Suvam Pal , Viktor Stojkoski , Arnab Pal , Trifce Sandev

Fractional Brownian motion, a stochastic process with long-time correlations between its increments, is a prototypical model for anomalous diffusion. We analyze fractional Brownian motion in the presence of a reflecting wall by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexander H. O. Wada , Thomas Vojta

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problem for systems driven by mixed fractional Brownian motion (including a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$ and the standard Brownian motion). By using Malliavin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han

We discuss the statistics of first-passage times of a Brownian particle moving in a highly unstable nonlinear potential proportional to an odd power of position. We observe temperature-induced shortening of the mean first-passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Artem Ryabov , Pavel Zemanek , Radim Filip

Stretched-exponential relaxation is a widely observed phenomenon found in ordered ferromagnets as well as glassy systems. One modeling approach connects this behavior to a droplet dynamics described by an effective Langevin equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We derive general expressions for the free energy, entropy production and entropy extraction rates for a Brownian particle that walks in a viscous medium where the dynamics of its motion is governed by the Langevin equation. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

We consider the problem of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in multiscale potential with N + 1 characteristic length scales: the macroscale and N separated microscales. We show that the coarse-grained dynamics is given by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 A. B. Duncan , S. Kalliadasis , G. A. Pavliotis , M. Pradas

In this paper we derive novel change of variable formulas for stochastic integrals w.r.t. a time-changed Brownian motion where we assume that the time-change is a general increasing stochastic process with finitely many jumps in a bounded…

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The escape rate of a particle over a fluctuating barrier in a double well potential exhibits resonance at an optimum value of correlation time of fluctuation. This has been shown to be important in several variants of kinetic model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Debashis Barik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

In systems possessing a spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking thermal Brownian motion combined with unbiased, non-equilibrium noise gives rise to a channelling of chance that can be used to exercise control over systems at the micro- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Hänggi , F. Marchesoni , F. Nori

We explore the archetype problem of an escape dynamics occurring in a symmetric double well potential when the Brownian particle is driven by {\it white L\'evy noise} in a dynamical regime where inertial effects can safely be neglected. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Dybiec E. Gudowska-Nowak P. Hänggi

The paper studies a dynamic blocking problem, motivated by a model of optimal fire confinement. While the fire can expand with unit speed in all directions, barriers are constructed in real time. An optimal strategy is sought, minimizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri