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A particle with internal unobserved states diffusing in a force field will generally display effective advection-diffusion. The drift velocity is proportional to the mobility averaged over the internal states, or effective mobility, while…

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Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) enhances the understanding of the effects of the randomness in the environment by letting agents learn the distribution of a random return, rather than its expected value as in standard…

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The diffusion coefficient of a circular shaped inclusion in a liquid membrane is investigated by taking into account the interaction between membranes and bulk solvents of arbitrary thickness. As illustrative examples, the diffusion…

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Using machine learning with a variational formula for diffusivity, we recast diffusion as a sum of individual contributions to diffusion--called "kinosons"--and compute their statistical distribution to model a complex multicomponent alloy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-02 Soham Chattopadhyay , Dallas R. Trinkle

Quantum mechanics does not provide any ready recipe for defining energy density in space, since the energy and coordinate do not commute. To find a well-motivated energy density, we start from a possibly fundamental, relativistic…

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Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow…

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Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

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We investigate test-particle diffusion in dynamical turbulence based on a numerical approach presented before. For the turbulence we employ the nonlinear anisotropic dynamical turbulence model which takes into account wave propagation…

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We develop a practical method of computing the stationary drift velocity V and the diffusion coefficient D of a particle (or a few particles) in a periodic system with arbitrary transition rates. We solve this problem both in a physically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zbigniew Koza

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…

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Much effort has been put into developing theories for dense fluids, as a result of these efforts many theories work for a certain type of particle or in a certain concentration regime. Rosenfeld proposed a dependence of the self-diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-22 Melina Sampayo Puelles , Miguel Hoyuelos

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

We propose a general methodology for calculating the self-diffusion tensor from molecular dynamics for a liquid with a liquid-gas or liquid-solid interface. The standard method used in bulk fluids, based on computing the mean square…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pu Liu , Edward Harder , B. J. Berne

Nonlinear dynamical systems are ubiquitous in nature and they are hard to forecast. Not only they may be sensitive to small perturbations in their initial conditions, but they are often composed of processes acting at multiple scales.…

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A molecule traveling in a realistic propagation environment can experience stochastic interactions with other molecules and the environment boundary. The statistical behavior of some isolated phenomena, such as dilute unbounded molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

The nonlinear climbing sine map is a nonhyperbolic dynamical system exhibiting both normal and anomalous diffusion under variation of a control parameter. We show that on a suitable coarse scale this map generates an oscillating…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Korabel , R. Klages

We present a generalized linear response theory for mixed jump-diffusion models -- combining Gaussian and L\'evy noise interacting with nonlinear dynamics -- by deriving comprehensive response formulas accounting for perturbations to both…

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We present DUAL-LOCO, a communication-efficient algorithm for distributed statistical estimation. DUAL-LOCO assumes that the data is distributed according to the features rather than the samples. It requires only a single round of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-04 Christina Heinze , Brian McWilliams , Nicolai Meinshausen

Nonlinear dynamical stochastic models are ubiquitous in different areas. Excitable media models are typical examples with large state dimensions. Their statistical properties are often of great interest but are also very challenging to…

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