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The theory of optimal transportation has developed into a powerful and elegant framework for comparing probability distributions, with wide-ranging applications in all areas of science. The fundamental idea of analyzing probabilities by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-14 Florian F Gunsilius

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

The concepts of quantile position, trajectory, and velocity are defined. For a tunneling quantum mechanical wave packet, it is proved that its quantile position always stays behind that of a free wave packet with the same initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Brandt , H. D. Dahmen , E. Gjonaj , T. Stroh

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

Optimal transport has been used to define bijective nonlinear transforms and different transport-related metrics for discriminating data and signals. Here we briefly describe the advances in this topic with the main applications and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Rocío Díaz Martín , Ivan V. Medri , Gustavo Kunde Rohde

A paradigm for isothermal, mechanical rectification of stochastic fluctuations is introduced in this paper. The central idea is to transform energy injected by random perturbations into rigid-body rotational kinetic energy. The prototype…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-18 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Houman Owhadi

This essay is an attempted to address, from a modern perspective, the motion of a particle. Quantum mechanically, motion consists of a series of localizations due to repeated interactions that, taken close to the limit of the continuum,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Gerald E. Marsh

A variation principle for mass transport in solids is derived that recasts transport coefficients as minima of local thermodynamic average quantities. The result is independent of diffusion mechanism, and applies to amorphous and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Dallas R. Trinkle

The axiomatic approach to parallel transport theory is partially discussed. Bijective correspondences between the sets of connections, (axiomatically defined) parallel transports, and transports along paths satisfying some additional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-01 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

In this paper, I explore various transport processes that have a large impact of the distribution of elements inside stars and thus, on stellar evolution. A heuristic description of the physics behind equations is provided, and key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Suzanne Talon

We study the interplay of collective dynamics and damping in the presence of correlations and bosonic fluctuations within the framework of a newly proposed model, which captures the principal transport mechanisms that apply to a variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Alvermann , D. M. Edwards , H. Fehske

Transportation Problem is an important aspect which has been widely studied in Operations Research domain. It has been studied to simulate different real life problems. In particular, application of this Problem in NP- Hard Problems has a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Arindam Chaudhuri , Kajal De

We prove ballistic transport of all orders, that is, $\lVert x^m\mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}tH}\psi\rVert\asymp t^m$, for the following models: the adjacency matrix on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, the Laplace operator on $\mathbb{R}^d$, periodic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Anne Boutet de Monvel , Mostafa Sabri

We investigate the motion of charged particles in a turbulent electrostatic potential using guiding-center theory. By increasing the Larmor radius, the dynamics exhibit close-to-ballistic transport properties. The transition from diffusive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Matteo Stanzani , Filippo Arlotti , Guido Ciraolo , Xavier Garbet , Cristel Chandre

The relations of antilinear maps, bipartite states and quantum channels is summarized. Antilinear maps are applied to describe bipartite states and entanglement. Teleportation is treated in this general formalism with an emphasis on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Kurucz , M. Koniorczyk , J. Janszky

We review the major trends over the past decades in the theoretical and experimental approaches to the underlying physics of Many Polaron systems, concentrating on the cross-over between large an small polaronic charge carriers.

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Julius Ranninger

Quantum mechanics is a fundamentally probabilistic theory (at least so far as the empirical predictions are concerned). It follows that, if one wants to properly understand quantum mechanics, it is essential to clearly understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Appleby

Colloidal nanoparticles developed as interesting objects to establish two- or three-dimensional super-structures with properties not known from conventional bulk materials. Beyond, the properties can be tuned and quantum effects can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-30 Christian Klinke

Linear and non-linear transport properties through an atomic-size point contact based on oxides two-dimensional electron gas is examined using the tight-binding method and the $\mathbf{k\cdot p}$ approach. The ballistic transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 J. Settino , C. A. Perroni , F. Romeo , V. Cataudella , R. Citro

Transport properties of particles and waves in spatially periodic structures that are driven by external time-dependent forces manifestly depend on the space-time symmetries of the corresponding equations of motion. A systematic analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sergey Denisov , Sergej Flach , Peter Hanggi