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In order to successfully explore quantum systems which are perturbations of simple models, it is essential to understand the complexity of perturbation bounds. We must ask ourselves: How quantum many-body systems can be artificially…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Nazife Erkurşun-Özcan , Farrukh Mukhamedov

Energy transport equations are derived directly from full molecular dynamics models as coarse-grained description. With the local energy chosen as the coarse-grained variables, we apply the Mori-Zwanzig formalism to derive a reduced model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 Weiqi Chu , Xiantao Li

We present a macroscopic theory of electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics based on the laws of motion that govern atomic and molecular motion. The theory is an application of Zwanzig-Mori projection operators. The result is a simple equation…

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We discuss the ergodic properties of quasi-Markovian stochastic differential equations, providing general conditions that ensure existence and uniqueness of a smooth invariant distribution and exponential convergence of the evolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Benedict Leimkuhler , Matthias Sachs

The Mori-Zwanzig formalism of statistical mechanics is used to estimate the uncertainty caused by underresolution in the solution of a nonlinear dynamical system. A general approach is outlined and applied to a simple example. The noise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Alexandre J. Chorin , Ole H. Hald

In this article we extend the modern, powerful and simple abstract Hilbert space strategy for proving hypocoercivity that has been developed originally by Dolbeault, Mouhot and Schmeiser. As well-known, hypocoercivity methods imply an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Martin Grothaus , Patrik Stilgenbauer

In this paper we study the harmonic elements of (convolution) Markov maps associated to (ergodic) actions of locally compact quantum groups on ($\sigma$-finite) von Neumann algebras. We give several equivalent conditions under which the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Massoud Amini , Mehrdad Kalantar , Mohammad S. M. Moakhar

Coarse-grained (CG) models are simplified representations of soft matter systems that are commonly employed to overcome size and time limitations in computational studies. Many approaches have been developed to construct and parametrise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-27 Piero Luchi , Roberto Menichetti , Gianluca Lattanzi , Raffaello Potestio

Explaining the emergence of stochastic irreversible macroscopic dynamics from time-reversible deterministic microscopic dynamics is one of the key problems in philosophy of physics. The Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-04 Michael te Vrugt

We study hypercontractivity for the underdamped Langevin dynamics with a convex confining potential. Unlike in the overdamped case, the noise acts only on the velocity variable, so the usual argument based on the logarithmic Sobolev…

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In this paper, we study the ergodic theorem for infinite-dimensional quantum Markov semigroups, originally introduced by Frigerio and Verri in 1982, and its latest version developed by Carbone and Girotti in 2021. We provide a sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Nicolas Mousset , Nina H. Amini

We discuss some mathematical aspects of the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism. The core of the Mori-Zwanzig formalism is the generalised Langevin equation, which is typically derived from the Dyson-Duhamel identity. We derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Christoph Widder , Tanja Schilling

We study a model of the motion by mean curvature of an (1+1) dimensional interface in a 2D Brownian velocity field. For the well-posedness of the model we prove existence and uniqueness for certain degenerate nonlinear stochastic evolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-11 A. Es-Sarhir , M. -K. von Renesse

This paper contains two parts. In the first part, we study the ergodicity of periodic measures of random dynamical systems on a separable Banach space. We obtain that the periodic measure of the continuous time skew-product dynamical system…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Chunrong Feng , Baoyou Qu , Huaizhong Zhao

We introduce the concept of an imprecise Markov semigroup \(\mathbf Q\). It is a tool that allows us to represent ambiguity around both the transition probabilities and the invariant measure of a continuous-time Markov process via a…

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Cosmology relies on a coarse-grained description of the universe, assumed to be valid on large length scales. However, the nonlinearity of general relativity makes coarse-graining extremely difficult. We here address this problem by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-07 Michael te Vrugt , Sabine Hossenfelder , Raphael Wittkowski

We construct relativistic quantum Markov semigroups from covariant completely positive maps. We proceed by generalizing a step in Stinespring's dilation to a general system of imprimitivity and basing it on Poincar\'e group. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-22 Radhakrishnan Balu

The maximum entropy principle is foundational for statistical analyses of complex dynamics. This principle has been challenged by the findings of a previous work [arXiv:1701.07596], where it was argued that a quantum system driven in time…

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The ability to efficiently and accurately calculate equilibrium time correlation functions of many-body condensed phase quantum systems is one of the outstanding problems in theoretical chemistry. The Nakajima-Zwanzig-Mori formalism coupled…

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