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Exact analytic solution for the probability distribution function of the non-inertial rotational diffusion equation, i.e., of the Smoluchowski one, in a symmetric Maier-Saupe uniaxial potential of mean torque is obtained via the confluent…

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The diffusion of a reactant to a binding target plays a key role in many biological processes. The reaction-radius at which the reactant and target may interact is often a small parameter relative to the diameter of the domain in which the…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-26 Sam Isaacson , Ava Mauro , Jay Newby

Numerical solutions of a non-Fickian diffusion equation belonging to a hyperbolic type are presented in one space dimension. The Brownian particle modelled by this diffusion equation is subjected to a symmetric periodic potential whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Adérito Araújo , Amal K. Das , Cidália Neves , Ercília Sousa

We study the coupled rotational diffusion in a two-particle chain on the basis of a Smoluchowski equation and calculate time-correlation functions that are measurable in an experiment. This might be used to explore hydrodynamic interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Stark , Michael Reichert , Jerome Bibette

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

The equation which describes a particle diffusing in a logarithmic potential arises in diverse physical problems such as momentum diffusion of atoms in optical traps, condensation processes, and denaturation of DNA molecules. A detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ori Hirschberg , David Mukamel , Gunter M. Schütz

A simple analytical method for solving intra-molecular reactions of polymer chain in dilute solution is formulated. The physical problem of looping can be modeled mathematically with the use of a Smoluchowski-like equation with a Dirac…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Moumita Ganguly , Aniruddha Chakraborty

We consider solvability of the generalized reaction-diffusion equation with both space- and time-dependent diffusion and reaction terms by means of the similarity method. By introducing the similarity variable, the reaction-diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 C. -L. Ho , C. -C. Lee

We consider the Cauchy problem on nonlinear scalar conservation laws with a diffusion-type source term related to an index $s\in \R$ over the whole space $\R^n$ for any spatial dimension $n\geq 1$. Here, the diffusion-type source term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-08 Renjun Duan , Lizhi Ruan , Changjiang Zhu

Diffusion models learn to reverse the progressive noising of a data distribution to create a generative model. However, the desired continuous nature of the noising process can be at odds with discrete data. To deal with this tension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Griffin Floto , Thorsteinn Jonsson , Mihai Nica , Scott Sanner , Eric Zhengyu Zhu

We consider a generalized degenerate diffusion equation with a reaction term $u_t=[A(u)]_{xx}+f(u)$, where $A$ is a smooth function satisfying $A(0)=A'(0)=0$ and $A(u),\ A'(u),\ A''(u)>0$ for $u>0$, $f$ is of monostable type in $[0,s_1]$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Fang Li , Bendong Lou

Normal and anomalous diffusion are ubiquitous in many complex systems [1] . Here, we define a time and space generalized diffusion equation (GDE), which uses fractional-time derivatives and transformed d-path Laplacian operators on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-02 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Ernesto Estrada

We derive the probability density of a diffusion process generated by nonergodic velocity fluctuations in presence of a weak potential, using the Liouville equation approach. The velocity of the diffusing particle undergoes dichotomic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-18 Mauro Bologna , Gerardo Aquino

This work presents a general thermodynamic approach to describe particle diffusion on a lattice, a model used to study transport processes in solids and on surfaces. By treating each lattice site as an open thermodynamic system, the effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Matías A. Di Muro , Miguel Hoyuelos

Problems involving the capture of a moving entity by a trap occur in a variety of physical situations, the moving entity being an electron, an excitation, an atom, a molecule, a biological object such as a receptor cluster, a cell, or even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Spendier , S. Sugaya , V. M. Kenkre

We use asymptotic methods from the theory of differential equations to obtain an analytical expression for the survival probability of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with a potential defined over a broad domain. We form a uniformly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-26 L. T. Giorgini , W. Moon , J. S. Wettlaufer

This article discusses the analyticity and the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to space-time fractional diffusion equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$. By a Laplace transform argument, we prove that the decay rate of the solution as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xing Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

We design a deterministic particle method for the solution of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with uncertainty. The deterministic particle approximation is based on the reformulation of the Landau equation as a formal gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Rafael Bailo , José Antonio Carrillo , Andrea Medaglia , Mattia Zanella

In this paper, we investigate the solutions for a generalized fractional diffusion equation that extends some known diffusion equations by taking a spatial time-dependent diffusion coefficient and an external force into account, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Long-jin Lv , Jian-Bin Xiao , Lin Zhang