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We describe conditions on non-gradient drift diffusion Fokker-Planck equations for its solutions to converge to equilibrium with a uniform exponential rate in Wasserstein distance. This asymptotic behaviour is related to a functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 François Bolley , Ivan Gentil , Arnaud Guillin

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 contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of vehicles in freeway traffic which has been suggested for the evaluation of interaction potentials among vehicles (see preprint…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber

When the complete understanding of a complex system is not available, as, e.g., for systems considered in the real-world, we need a top-down approach to complexity. In this approach one may start with the desire to understand general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Joachim Peinke , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar , Matthias Wächter

Understanding turbulent transport of charged particles in magnetized plasmas often requires a model for the description of random variations in the particle's pitch angle. The Fokker-Planck coefficient of pitch-angle scattering, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 R. C. Tautz , A. Shalchi , A. Dosch

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

The relaxation towards equilibrium of systems with long range interactions is not yet fully understood. As a step towards such a comprehension, we propose the study of the dynamical equilibrium fluctuations in a model system with long range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Freddy Bouchet

Combining the results of [14] and [10], the trend to equilibrium in large time is studied for a large particle system associated to a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation. Under some conditions (that allow non-convex confining potentials) the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Guillin , Pierre Monmarché

We study the classical motion of a particle subject to a stochastic force. We then present a perturbative schema for the associated Fokker-Planck equation where, in the limit of a vanishingly small noise source, a consistent dynamical model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Torres , J. M. A. Figueiredo

Parametric regularity of discretizations of flux vector fields satisfying a balance law is studied under some assumptions on a random parameter that links the flux with an unknown primal variable (often through a constitutive law). In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vesa Kaarnioja , Andreas Rupp , Jay Gopalakrishnan

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

The influence of crowding on the diffusion of tagged particles in a dense medium is investigated in the framework of a mean-field model, derived in the continuum limit from a microscopic stochastic process with exclusion. The probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Amos Maritan , Francesco Piazza

We investigate the behavior of self-propelled particles in infinite space dimensions by comparing two powerful approaches in many-body dynamics: the Fokker-Planck equation and dynamical mean-field theory. The dynamics of the particles at…

We perform a numerical approximation of coherent sets in finite-dimensional smooth dynamical systems by computing singular vectors of the transfer operator for a stochastically perturbed flow. This operator is obtained by solution of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Andreas Denner , Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes

We proposed the modified version of quantum-mechanical theory of continuous measurements for the case of classical open systems. In our approach the influence of measurement on evolution of distribution function of an open system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. D. Vol

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation governs the evolution of densities for stochastic dynamics of physical systems, such as the Langevin dynamics and the Lorenz system. This work simulates FP equations through a mean field control (MFC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

A generalized Fokker-Planck equation is derived to describe particle kinetics in specific situations when the probability transition function (PTF) has a long tail in momentum space. The equation is valid for an arbitrary value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. A. Dubinova , S. A. Trigger

For a system of mean field interacting diffusion on $\mathbb{T}^d$, the empirical measure $\mu^N$ converges to the solution $\mu$ of the Fokker-Planck equation. Refining this mean field limit as a Central Limit Theorem, the fluctuation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Alekos Cecchin , Paul Nikolaev

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

Many classical examples of models of self-organized dynamics, including the Cucker-Smale, Motsch-Tadmor, multi-species, and several others, include an alignment force that is based upon density-weighted averaging protocol. Those protocols…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Roman Shvydkoy