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We show how the steady-state solution of the Smoluchowski (Fokker-Planck) equation for a color reaction-counterdiffusion problem, together with equilibrium trajectory information (e.g., from molecular simulations or confocal microscopy…

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Diffusion-limited reactions (DLR) are usually described within the Smoluchowski theory, which neglects interactions between the diffusing components. We propose a first extension of such frame- work that incorporates excluded-volume…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-24 N. Dorsaz , C. De Michele , F. Piazza , P. De Los Rios , G. Foffi

The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Mohammad Reza Yaghouti , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou , Alan Hammond

We calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential energy landscape $U(x)$. The PDF is found by solving the corresponding Smoluchowski diffusion equation. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Matan Sivan , Oded Farago

We study diffusion on comb lattices of arbitrary dimension. Relying on the loopless structure of these lattices and using first-passage properties, we obtain exact and explicit formulae for the Laplace transforms of the propagators…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

The diffusive transport of particles in anisotropic media is a fundamental phenomenon in computational, medical and biological disciplines. While deterministic models (partial differential equations) of such processes are well established,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Luke P. Filippini , Adrianne L. Jenner , Elliot J. Carr

A general class of solutions of Einstein's equation for a slowly rotating fluid source, with supporting internal pressure, is matched using Lichnerowicz junction conditions, to the Kerr metric up to and including first order terms in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. J. Wiltshire

This paper is dedicated to the study of the semilinear fractional diffusion-wave equation. We provide estimates on the families of linear operators related to the problem in the fractional power scale associated with the Laplace operator.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Bruno de Andrade , Naldisson Santos

This paper considers particle propagation in a cylindrical molecular communication channel, e.g. a simplified model of a blood vessel. Emitted particles are influenced by diffusion, flow, and a vertical force induced e.g. by gravity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

We study the free diffusion in two dimensions of active-Brownian swimmers subject to passive fluctuations on the translational motion and to active fluctuations on the rotational one. The Smoluchowski equation is derived from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-25 Francisco J. Sevilla , Mario Sandoval

We study diffusion-limited pair annihilation $A+A\to 0$ on one-dimensional lattices with inhomogeneous nearest neighbour hopping in the limit of infinite reaction rate. We obtain a simple exact expression for the particle concentration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Schütz , K. Mussawisade

We consider a random walk model in a one-dimensional environment, formed by several zones of finite width with the fixed transition probabilities. It is also assumed that the transitions to the left and right neighboring points have unequal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-18 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

We revisit the variational characterization of conservative diffusion as entropic gradient flow and provide for it a probabilistic interpretation based on stochastic calculus. It was shown by Jordan, Kinderlehrer, and Otto that, for…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Ioannis Karatzas , Walter Schachermayer , Bertram Tschiderer

We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn

The probabilistic approach to turbulence is applied to investigate density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence. We derive kinetic equations for the probability distribution function (PDF) of the logarithm of the density field, $s$, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Åke Nordlund

We present a new method to solve the dynamics of disordered spin systems on finite time-scales. It involves a closed driven diffusion equation for the joint spin-field distribution, with time-dependent coefficients described by a dynamical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. C. C. Coolen , S. N. Laughton , D. Sherrington

We study diffusion-reaction processes on periodic square planar lattices and simple cubic (sc) lattices. Considered first is a single diffusing reactant undergoing an irreversible reaction upon first encounter with a stationary co-reactant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-22 E. Abad , T. Abil , A. Santos , J. J. Kozak

A propagator for the one dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with an asymmetric rectangular potential is obtained using the multiple-scattering theory approach. It allows for the consideration of the reflection and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Victor F. Los , Mykola "Nicholas" V. Los

An investigation of the effect of surface diffusion in random deposition model is made by analytical methods and reasoning. For any given site, the extent to which a particle can diffuse is decided by the morphology in the immediate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-14 Baisakhi Mal , Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

Exact bound state solutions of the Dirac equation for the Kratzer potential in the presence of a tensor potential are studied by using the Laplace transform approach for the cases of spin- and pseudo-spin symmetry. The energy spectra is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Altug Arda , Ramazan Sever