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We give a geometric formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kramer equations for a particle moving on a Lie algebra under the influence of a dissipative and a random force. Special cases of interest are fluid mechanics, the Stochastic Loewner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 S. G. Rajeev

The steady state of the Fokker-Planck equation corresponding to a density dependent one-step process is approximated by a suitable normal distribution. Starting from the master equations of the process, written in terms of the time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter L. Simon , Eszter Sikolya

The usual Langevin approach to describe systems driven by noise fails to describe the long time behavior of systems with multiple attractors. The solution of the associated linear Fokker-Planck equation is always unique, even though it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-20 M. Morillo , J. M. Casado

In this paper, we investigate gradient estimate of the Poisson equation and the exponential convergence in the Wasserstein metric $W_{1,d_{l^1}}$, uniform in the number of particles, and uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel method to approximate the mean field stochastic differential equation by means of approximating the density function via Fokker-Planck equation. We construct a well-posed truncated Fokker-Planck equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Jinhui Zhou , Yongkui Zou , Shimin Chai , Boyu Wang , Ziyi Tan

We study the short-time dynamics of a mean-field model with non-conserved order parameter (Curie-Weiss with Glauber dynamics) by solving the associated Fokker-Planck equation. We obtain closed-form expressions for the first moments of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-10 Celia Anteneodo , Ezequiel E. Ferrero , Sergio A. Cannas

We investigate the effects of relatively rapid variations of the boundaries of an overmoded cavity on the stochastic properties of its interior acoustic or electromagnetic field. For quasi-static variations, this field can be represented as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. R. Arnaut

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation which is a key ingredient in many models in physics. This paper aims to obtain a quantum counterpart of Fokker-Planck dynamics, as a means to describing quantum Fokker-Planck…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Louis Labuschagne , W. Adam Majewski

We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We consider a class of interacting particle systems in continuous space of non-gradient type, which are reversible with respect to Poisson point processes with constant density. For these models, a rate of convergence was recently obtained…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Chenlin Gu , Jean-Christophe Mourrat , Maximilian Nitzschner

The unified description of diffusion processes that cross over from a ballistic behavior at short times to normal or anomalous diffusion (sub- or superdiffusion) at longer times is constructed on the basis of a non-Markovian generalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-26 Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Anatoly Zagorodny

We introduce a model of long-range interacting particles evolving under a stochastic Monte Carlo dynamics, in which possible increase or decrease in the values of the dynamical variables is accepted with preassigned probabilities. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

Recently, several authors have tried to extend the usual concepts of thermodynamics and kinetic theory in order to deal with distributions that can be non-Boltzmannian. For dissipative systems described by the canonical ensemble, this leads…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

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

A cross-diffusion system for two compoments with a Laplacian structure is analyzed on the multi-dimensional torus. This system, which was recently suggested by P.-L. Lions, is formally derived from a Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Ansgar Jüngel , Nicola Zamponi

We present a perturbation approach to calculate the short-time propagator, or transition density, of the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation, to in principle arbitrary order in the time increment. Our approach preserves probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Julian Kappler

In this work, we consider the discretization of some nonlinear Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations. The scheme we propose preserves the non-negativity of the solution, conserves the mass and, as the discretization parameters tend to zero,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

Mean-field integro-differential equations are studied in an abstract framework, through couplings of the corresponding stochastic processes. In the perturbative regime, the equation is proven to admit a unique equilibrium, toward which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Pierre Monmarché

We develop a recursive method for perturbative solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. The series expansion of the time-dependent probability density in terms of powers of the coupling constant is obtained by solving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-06 Jens Dreger , Axel Pelster , Bodo Hamprecht