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A self-consistent and universal description of friction and diffusion for Brownian particles (grains) in different systems, as a gas with Boltzmann collisions, dusty plasma with ion absorption by grains, and for active particles (e.g.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , P. P. J. M. Schram

The Fokker--Planck equation describes the evolution of a probability distribution towards equilibrium--the flow parameter is the equilibration time. Assuming the distribution remains normalizable for all times, it is equivalent to an open…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Stam Nicolis , Julien Tranchida , Pascal Thibaudeau

A Brownian particle floating in a narrow corrugated (sinusoidal) channel with fluctuating cross section exhibits non-Gaussian normal diffusion. Its displacements are distributed according to a Gaussian law for very short and asymptotically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-09 Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Debajyoti Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

Fokker-Planck equations describe time evolution of probability densities of stochastic dynamical systems and play an important role in quantifying propagation and evolution of uncertainty. Although Fokker-Planck equations can be written…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Xu Sun , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Hua Liu , Xiangjun Wang , Yayun Zheng

Fractional Fokker-Planck equation plays an important role in describing anomalous dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, the existing discussions mainly focus on this kind of equation involving one diffusion operator. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

We present a Fokker-Planck description of supercooled colloidal systems exhibiting slow relaxation dynamics. By assuming the existence of a local quasi-equilibrium state during the relaxation of the system, we derive a non-Markovian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Rubi , I. Santamaria-Holek , A. Perez-Madrid

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , A. Baule , S. Eule

The temporal Fokker-Planck equation is analytically integrated in an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions but with the 2D and 3D results highlighted. It is shown that a temporal power-law ansatz for the anisotropic diffusion coefficients…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Billy D. Jones

In this work, we explore both the ordinary $q$-Gaussian distribution and a new one defined here, determining both their mean and variance, and we use them to construct solutions of the $q$-deformed diffusion differential equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Won Sang Chung , L. M. Nieto , Soroush Zare , Hassan Hassanabadi

Inspired by one--dimensional light--particle systems, the dynamics of a non-Hamiltonian system with long--range forces is investigated. While the molecular dynamics does not reach an equilibrium state, it may be approximated in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-23 Romain Bachelard , Nicola Piovella , Shamik Gupta

In inhomogeneous environments, the correct expression of the diffusive flux is often not given by the Fick's law $\Gamma = - D \nabla n $. The most general hydrodynamic equation modelling diffusion is indeed the Fokker-Planck Equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Sattin

When a chaotic, ergodic Hamiltonian system with $N$ degrees of freedom is subject to sufficiently rapid periodic driving, its energy evolves diffusively. We derive a Fokker-Planck equation that governs the evolution of the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 Wade Hodson , Christopher Jarzynski

The dynamics of the open or closed state region of an ion channel may be described by a probability density $p(x,t)$ which satisfies a Fokker-Planck equation. The closed state dwell-time distribution $f_c(t)$ derived from the Fokker-Planck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Samuel R. Vaccaro

Modern analyses of diffusion processes have proposed nonlinear versions of the Fokker-Planck equation to account for non-classical diffusion. These nonlinear equations are usually constructed on a phenomenological basis. Here we introduce a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in time-dependent force fields is derived from the underlying continuous time random walk. Its limitations are discussed and it is then applied to the study of subdiffusion under the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Calogero

Motivated by recent work on approximation of diffusion equations by deterministic interacting particle systems, we develop a nonlocal approximation for a range of linear and nonlinear diffusion equations and prove convergence of the method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Katy Craig , Matt Jacobs , Olga Turanova

We propose fractional Fokker-Planck equation for the kinetic description of relaxation and superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. We assume that the random electric field acting on a test charged particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Chechkin , V. Gonchar , M. Szydlowski