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A statistical theory of the mean field is developed. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction, obtained after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

We introduce a new approach to derive mean-field limits for first- and second-order particle systems with singular interactions. It is based on a duality approach combined with the analysis of linearized dual correlations, and it allows to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Didier Bresch , Mitia Duerinckx , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

We shall present a new strategy for handling mean field limits of quantum mechanical systems. The new method is simple and effective. It is simple, because it translates the idea behind the mean field description of a many particle quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 Peter Pickl

In this paper we consider a continuous description based on stochastic differential equations of the popular particle swarm optimization (PSO) process for solving global optimization problems and derive in the large particle limit the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Sara Grassi , Lorenzo Pareschi

This paper is devoted the the study of the mean field limit for many-particle systems undergoing jump, drift or diffusion processes, as well as combinations of them. The main results are quantitative estimates on the decay of fluctuations…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot , Bernt Wennberg

Exactly solvable many-body systems are few and far between, and the utility of approximate methods cannot be overestimated. Entanglement mean field theory is an approximate method to handle such systems. While mean field theories reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

In this paper we study the combined mean field and homogenization limits for a system of weakly interacting diffusions moving in a two-scale, locally periodic confining potential, of the form considered in~\cite{DuncanPavliotis2016}. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. N. Gomes , G. A. Pavliotis

Combinatorial optimization is a fertile testing ground for statistical physics methods developed in the context of disordered systems, allowing one to confront theoretical mean field predictions with actual properties of finite dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Houdayer , J. H. Boutet de Monvel , O. C. Martin

This paper studies the rate of convergence of a family of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC) to a mean-field model. When the mean-field model is a finite-dimensional dynamical system with a unique equilibrium point, an analysis based on…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Lei Ying

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

We show under general assumptions that the mean-field approximation for quan- tum many-boson systems is correct. Our contribution unifies and improves on most of the known results. The proof uses general properties of quantization in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Quentin Liard

Understanding how individuals' beliefs and attitudes evolve within a population is crucial for explaining social phenomena such as polarization and consensus formation. We explore a persuasive arguments model incorporating confirmation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-13 Sven Banisch , Joris Wessels

In this paper, we prove the global existence of the weak solution to the mean field kinetic equation derived from the $N$-particle Newtonian system. For $L^1\cap L^\infty$ initial data, the solvability of the mean field kinetic equation can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Qitao Yin , Li Chen , Simone Göttlich

The theory of Mean-Field Games is interested in the behaviour of interacting particle systems in which the individual interaction between particles (players) decreases as the size of the population increases. In recent years, it was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Joshué Helí Ricalde-Guerrero

These lectures notes are aimed at introducing the reader to some recent mathematical tools and results for the mean-field limit in statistical dynamics. As a warm-up, lecture 1 reviews the approach to the mean-field limit in classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 François Golse

We consider a system of $N$ particles interacting through their empirical distribution on a finite state space in continuous time. In the formal limit as $N\to\infty$, the system takes the form of a nonlinear (McKean--Vlasov) Markov chain.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Asaf Cohen , Ethan Huffman

We consider interacting particle systems with unbounded interaction range on general countably infinite graphs $S$ and prove explicit non-asymptotic error bounds for approximations of the infinite-volume dynamics by systems of finitely many…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Benedikt Jahnel , Jonas Köppl

Consider the class of Ensemble Square Root filtering algorithms for the numerical approximation of the posterior distribution of nonlinear Markovian signals partially observed with linear observations corrupted with independent measurement…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Theresa Lange , Wilhelm Stannat

The mean field approximation to the Ising model is a canonical variational tool that is used for analysis and inference in Ising models. We provide a simple and optimal bound for the KL error of the mean field approximation for Ising models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Vishesh Jain , Frederic Koehler , Elchanan Mossel

In this article we show, in a concise manner, a result of uniform in time propagation of chaos for non exchangeable systems of particles interacting according to a random graph. Provided the interaction is Lipschitz continuous, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Pierre Le Bris , Christophe Poquet