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We show how the scattering-into-cones and flux-across-surfaces theorems in Quantum Mechanics have very intuitive pathwise probabilistic versions based on some results by Carlen about large time behaviour of paths of Nelson diffusions. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Posilicano , Stefania Ugolini

This paper presents $N$-body and stochastic models that describe the motion of tracer particles in a potential that contains a large population of extended substructures. Fluctuations of the gravitational field induce a random walk of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Jorge Peñarrubia

We construct an autonomous chaotic Hamiltonian ratchet as a channel billiard subdivided by equidistant walls attached perpendicularly to one side of the channel, leaving an opening on the opposite side. A static homogeneous magnetic field…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-03 Walter Acevedo , Thomas Dittrich

High resolution eigenvalue spectra of several two- and three-dimensional superconducting microwave cavities have been measured in the frequency range below 20 GHz and analyzed using a statistical measure which is given by the distribution…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Alt , C. Dembowski , H. -D. Graef , R. Hofferbert , H. Rehfeld , A. Richter , A. Baecker

The mechanism of diffusing diffusivity predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the mean-squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Mpumelelo Matse , Mykyta V. Chubynsky , John Bechhoefer

We investigate the classical scattering dynamics of the driven elliptical billiard. Two fundamental scattering mechanisms are identified and employed to understand the rich behavior of the escape rate. A long-time algebraic decay which can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Florian Lenz , Fotis K. Diakonos , Peter Schmelcher

The diffusion of particles trapped in long narrow channels occurs predominantly in one dimension. Here, molecular dynamics simulation is used to study the inertial dynamics of two-dimensional hard disks, confined to long, narrow,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-05 Mahdi Zarif , Richard K. Bowles

We propose a simple equation for predicting self-diffusivity of fluids embedded in random matrices of identical, but dynamically frozen, particles (i.e., quenched-annealed systems). The only nontrivial input is the volume available to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeetain Mittal , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

A Drude-Boltzmann theory is used to calculate the transport properties of bilayer graphene. We find that for typical carrier densities accessible in graphene experiments, the dominant scattering mechanism is overscreened Coulomb impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

Using event-driven molecular dynamics simulations, we quantify how the self diffusivity of confined hard-sphere fluids depends on the nature of the confining boundaries. We explore systems with featureless confining boundaries that treat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 William P. Krekelberg , Vincent K. Shen , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

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

Discrete diffusion has recently emerged as a promising paradigm in discrete data modeling. However, existing methods typically rely on a fixed rate transition matrix during training, which not only limits the expressiveness of latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hengli Li , Yuxuan Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu , Zilong Zheng

A class of generalized exclusion processes parametrized by the maximal occupancy, $k\geq 1$, is investigated. For these processes with symmetric nearest-neighbor hopping, we compute the diffusion coefficient and show that it is independent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-14 Chikashi Arita , P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

We generalize classical dispersion theory for a passive scalar to derive an asymptotic long-time convection-diffusion equation for a solute suspended in a wide, structured channel and subject to a steady low-Reynolds-number shear flow. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 James V. Roggeveen , Howard A. Stone , Christina Kurzthaler

We consider a class of random billiards in a tube, where reflection angles at collisions with the boundary of the tube are random variables rather than deterministic (and elastic) quantities. We obtain a (non-standard) Central Limit Theorem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Henk Bruin , Niels Kolenbrander , Dalia Terhesiu

Transport properties of magnetic multilayers in current perpendicular to the plane of the layers geometry are defined by diffusive scattering in the bulk of the layers, and diffusive and ballistic scattering across the interfaces. Due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Asya Shpiro

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions transport is controlled both by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-22 P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi , Fabio Marchesoni , Gerhard Schmid , Peter Talkner

Diffusive dynamics abound in nature and have been especially studied in physical, biological, and financial systems. These dynamics are characterised by a linear growth of the mean squared displacement (MSD) with time. Often, the conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Alvaro Lanza , Xiang Qu , Stefano Bo

In the present work, we explore homogenization techniques for a class of switching diffusion processes whose drift and diffusion coefficients, and jump intensities are smooth, spatially periodic functions; we assume full coupling between…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Chetan D. Pahlajani

We consider the class of dispersing billiard systems in the plane formed by removing three convex analytic scatterers satisfying the non-eclipse condition. The collision map in this system is conjugated to a subshift, providing a natural…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Otto Vaughn Osterman