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The present contribution investigates the dynamics generated by the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck equation for charged particles in a steady inhomogeneous background of opposite charges. We provide global in time estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Maxime Herda , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Anton Arnold , Jan Erb

In this paper, we study the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation where the confining potential is non-convex. This is a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation describing the time evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut

We investigate the overdamped Langevin motion for particles in a potential well that is asymptotically flat. When the potential well is deep compared to temperature, physical observables like the mean square displacement are essentially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-08 Celia Anteneodo , Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We present a discretization-free scalable framework for solving a large class of mass-conserving partial differential equations (PDEs), including the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation and the Wasserstein gradient flow. The main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Lingxiao Li , Samuel Hurault , Justin Solomon

McKean-Vlasov SDEs describe systems where the dynamics depend on the law of the process. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation is a nonlinear, nonlocal PDE for the corresponding measure flow. In the presence of common noise and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Fabio Bugini , Peter K. Friz , Wilhelm Stannat

The diffusion equation is a universal and standard textbook model for partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we revisit its solutions, seeking, in particular, self-similar profiles. This problem connects to the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-16 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. O. Williams , D. Mantzavinos , E. G. Charalampidis , M. Choi , I. G. Kevrekidis

We present an equation-free dynamic renormalization approach to the computational study of coarse-grained, self-similar dynamic behavior in multidimensional particle systems. The approach is aimed at problems for which evolution equations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Yu Zou , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Roger Ghanem

We consider the mean field Fokker-Planck equation subject to nonlinear no-flux boundary conditions, which necessarily arise when subjecting a system of Brownian particles interacting via a pair potential in a bounded domain. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. D. Mills-Williams , B. D. Goddard , G. A. Pavliotis

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

Traditionally, the quantum Brownian motion is described by Fokker-Planck or diffusion equations in terms of quasi-probability distribution functions, e.g., Wigner functions. These often become singular or negative in the full quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suman Kumar Banik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

We propose a new Neural Galerkin Normalizing Flow framework to approximate the transition probability density function of a diffusion process by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation with an atomic initial distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Riccardo Saporiti , Fabio Nobile

Let $(Y_i,\theta_i)$, $i=1,...,n$, be independent random vectors distributed like $(Y,\theta) \sim G^*$, where the marginal distribution of $\theta$ is completely unknown, and the conditional distribution of $Y$ conditional on $\theta$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Eitan Greenshtein , Theodor Itskov

We derive the exact evolution equation for the probability density function of particle displacements generated by arbitrary Gaussian velocity processes, when neither Markovianity and nor stationarity are assumed. Starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Alessandro Taloni , Gianni Pagnini , Aleksei Chechkin

The Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) is the partial differential equation that governs the density evolution of the It\^o process and is of great importance to the literature of statistical physics and machine learning. The FPE can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zebang Shen , Zhenfu Wang , Satyen Kale , Alejandro Ribeiro , Amin Karbasi , Hamed Hassani

In this study, we propose a new method that is useful for estimating unknown parameter values of stochastic differential equation (SDE) models, based on probability density function (PDF) data measured from random dynamical systems. As our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Katsutoshi Yoshida , Yoshikazu Yamanaka

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Sanju S Pillai , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

The Fokker-Planck equation is one of the fundamental equations in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, and this equation is known to be derived from the Wasserstein gradient flow equation with a free energy. This gradient flow equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Shin-itiro Goto

We obtain equilibration rates for a one-dimensional nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent diffusion coefficient and drift, modeling the relaxation of a large swarm of robots, feeling each other in terms of their distance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Ferdinando Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We study efficiency of non-parametric estimation of diffusions (stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motion) from long stationary trajectories. First, we introduce estimators based on conditional expectation which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Xi Chen , Ilya Timofeyev