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Characterising the statistical properties of classical interacting particle systems is a long-standing question. For Brownian particles the microscopic density obeys a stochastic evolution equation, known as the Dean--Kawasaki equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

The Dean-Kawasaki (DK) equation, which is at the basis of stochastic density functional theory (SDFT), was proposed in the mid-nineties to describe the evolution of the density of interacting Brownian particles, which can represent a large…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-13 Pierre Illien

Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a quantitative, large-scale description of many-body systems in terms of smooth variables, with microscopic details entering only through a small set of transport coefficients. Although this framework has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Soumyabrata Saha , Sandeep Jangid , Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Juliane U. Klamser , Tridib Sadhu

We study the role of fluctuations in particle systems modeled by Dean-Kawasaki-type equations, which describe the evolution of particle densities in systems with Brownian motion. By comparing microscopic simulations, stochastic partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Nathan O. Silvano , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

We derive a stochastic partial differential equation that describes the fluctuating behaviour of reaction-diffusion systems of N particles, undergoing Markovian, unary reactions. This generalises the work of Dean [J. Phys. A: Math. and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 Richard E. Spinney , Richard G. Morris

The Dean-Kawasaki equation - one of the most fundamental SPDEs of fluctuating hydrodynamics - has been proposed as a model for density fluctuations in weakly interacting particle systems. In its original form it is highly singular and fails…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Federico Cornalba , Julian Fischer , Jonas Ingmanns , Claudia Raithel

We study the dynamics of overdamped Brownian particles interacting through soft pairwise potentials on a comb-like structure. Within the linearized Dean-Kawasaki framework, we characterize the particle density fluctuations by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Davide Venturelli , Pierre Illien , Aurélien Grabsch , Olivier Bénichou

The Dean-Kawasaki equation - a strongly singular SPDE - is a basic equation of fluctuating hydrodynamics; it has been proposed in the physics literature to describe the fluctuations of the density of $N$ independent diffusing particles in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Federico Cornalba , Julian Fischer

The evolution of finitely many particles obeying Langevin dynamics is described by Dean-Kawasaki equations, a class of stochastic equations featuring a non-Lipschitz multiplicative noise in divergence form. We derive a regularised…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Federico Cornalba , Tony Shardlow , Johannes Zimmer

The formulation of a fluctuating hydrodynamic theory for interacting particles is a crucial step in the theoretical description of liquids. The microscopic mappings proposed decades ago by Dean and Kawasaki have played a central role in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jaehyeok Jin , Chen Liu , David R. Reichman

We study the dynamics of a tracer in a dense mixture of particles connected to different thermostats. Starting from the overdamped Langevin equations that describe the evolution of the system, we derive the expression of the self-diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 Marie Jardat , Vincent Dahirel , Pierre Illien

Brownian particles interacting via repulsive soft-core potentials can spontaneously aggregate, despite repelling each other, and form periodic crystals of particle clusters. We study this phenomenon in low-dimensional situations (one and…

We extend a previously proposed field-theoretic self-consistent perturbation approach for the equilibrium dynamics of the Dean-Kawasaki equation presented in [J. Stat. Mech. 2008 P02004]. By taking terms missing in the latter analysis into…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-25 Bongsoo Kim , Kyozi Kawasaki , Hugo Jacquin , Frédéric van Wijland

The Dean-Kawasaki (DK) equation is a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) for the global density $\rho$ of a gas of $N$ over-damped Brownian particles. In the thermodynamic limit $N\rightarrow \infty$ with weak pairwise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-12 Paul C Bressloff

Assuming an effective quadratic Hamiltonian, we derive an approximate, linear stochastic equation of motion for the density-fluctuations in liquids, composed of overdamped Brownian particles. From this approach, time dependent two point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Matthias Krüger , David S. Dean

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

Equations of motion for the microscopic number density $\hat{\rho}({\bf x},t)$ and the momentum density $\hat{\bf g}({\bf x},t)$ of a fluid have been obtained in the past from the corresponding Langevin equations representing the dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shankar P. Das , Akira Yoshimori

We derive the distribution of particle currents for a system of interacting active Brownian particles in the long time limit using large deviation theory and a weighted many body expansion. We find the distribution is non-Gaussian, except…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-19 Trevor GrandPre , David T. Limmer

We consider a two-dimensional model system of Brownian particles in which slow particles are accelerated while fast particles are damped. The motion of the individual particles are described by a Langevin equation with Rayleigh-Helmholtz…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 Anoosheh Yazdi , Matthias Sperl
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