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A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

We explain the ubiquity and extremely slow evolution of non gaussian out-of-equilibrium distributions for the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, by means of traditional kinetic theory. Deriving the Fokker-Planck equation for a test particle, one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois

The Fokker-Planck equation for a heavy particle in a granular fluid is derived from the Liouville equation. The host fluid is assumed to be in its homogeneous cooling state and all interactions are idealized as smooth, inelastic hard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Dufty , J. J. Brey

In this paper, we develop and analyze numerical methods for high dimensional Fokker-Planck equations by leveraging generative models from deep learning. Our starting point is a formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation as a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Shu Liu , Wuchen Li , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We study the main properties of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation characterized by a variable diffusion coefficient and a polynomial superlinear drift, modeling the formation of consensus in a large interacting system of individuals.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

This article has to do with the derivation and solution of the Fokker--Planck equation associated to the momentum-independent Wigner function, of a particle subjected to a harmonic external field and immersed in a ohmic thermal bath of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pedro J. Colmenares

This paper investigates the gradient flow structure, well-posedness, and asymptotic behavior of the Fokker-Planck equation defined on locally uniformly finite graphs, which is highly non-trivial compared with the finite case. We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Cong Wang

Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

It is long known that the Fokker-Planck equation with prescribed constant coefficients of diffusion and linear friction describes the ensemble average of the stochastic evolutions in velocity space of a Brownian test particle immersed in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kiessling , Carlo Lancellotti

We introduce a new class of Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical framework. These equations describe a gas of Langevin particles in interaction. The free energy can take various forms which can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We analyze the diffusion of a Brownian particle in a fluid under stationary flow. By using the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics in phase space, we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation which is compared with others derived from kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Santamaría-Holek , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

In this paper we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation with asymptotically small parameters. It describes the diffusion of finite-size particles in the presence of a fixed distribution of obstacles in the limit of low-volume fraction.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , Helene Ranetbauer , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Wasserstein gradient flows provide a powerful means of understanding and solving many diffusion equations. Specifically, Fokker-Planck equations, which model the diffusion of probability measures, can be understood as gradient descent over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Evgeny Burnaev

We discuss the dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions. We contrast the microcanonical description of an isolated Hamiltonian system to the canonical description of a stochastically forced Brownian system. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In this paper, we study the stochastic Hamiltonian flow in Wasserstein manifold, the probability density space equipped with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor, via the Wong--Zakai approximation. We begin our investigation by showing that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

The dynamics of a degree of freedom associated to an axial vector in contact with a heat bath is decribed by means of a probability distribution function obeying a Fokker-Planck equation. The equation is derived by using mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-27 J. G. Méndez-Bermúdez , I. Santamaría-Holek

Systems with long range interactions present generically the formation of quasi-stationary long-lived non-equilibrium states. These states relax to Boltzmann equilibrium following a dynamics which is not well understood. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Marcos

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

We consider some elementary aspects of the geometry of the space of probability measures endowed with Wasserstein distance. In such a setting, we discuss the various terms entering Perelman's shrinker entropy, and characterize two new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-24 Mauro Carfora

We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation steps, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Michael Vogl , Pontus Laurell , Aaron D. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete