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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

Fokker-Planck equations (forward Kolmogorov equations) evolve probability densities in time from an initial condition. For distributions over the real line, these evolution equations can sometimes be transformed into dynamics over the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 David W. Cohen , Merek Johnson , Bruce M. Boghosian

High-energy, multi-component plasmas in which pair creation and annihilation, lepton-lepton scattering, lepton-proton scattering, and Comptonization all contribute to establishing the particle and photon distributions, are present in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Fulvio Melia

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

A collisional model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional granular mixture is considered to analyze homogeneous steady states. The model includes an effective mechanism to transfer the kinetic energy injected by vibration in the vertical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto , Vicente Garzó

We argue that our recent success in using our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, to estimate the value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 B. F. L. Ward

The Fokker-Planck Equation, applied to transport processes in fusion plasmas, can model several anomalous features, including uphill transport, scaling of confinement time with system size, and convective propagation of externally induced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-05 D. F. Escande , F. Sattin

This paper has been withdrawn from the arXiv. It is now published by Elsevier in Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, see http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nahs.2009.07.008 . A general formulation of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation for…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Julien Bect

The general covariant Fokker-Planck equations associated with the two different versions of covariant Langevin equation in Part I of this series of work are derived, both lead to the same reduced Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

Traditionally, the quantum Brownian motion is described by Fokker-Planck or diffusion equations in terms of quasi-probability distribution functions, e.g., Wigner functions. These often become singular or negative in the full quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suman Kumar Banik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

We prove approach to thermal equilibrium for the fully Hamiltonian dynamics of a dynamical Lorentz gas, by which we mean an ensemble of particles moving through a $d$-dimensional array of fixed soft scatterers that each possess an internal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. De Bievre , P. E. Parris

In this paper we prove the strong and time-averaged strong convergence to equilibrium for solutions (with general initial data) of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Fermi-Dirac particles. The assumption on the collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Bocheng Liu , Xuguang Lu

We consider a continuous random walk model for describing normal as well as anomalous diffusion of particles subjected to an external force when these particles diffuse in a uniformly expanding (or contracting) medium. A general equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

The trend to equilibrium in large time is studied for a large particle system associated to a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in the presence of a convex external potential, without smallness restriction on the interaction. From this are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Pierre Monmarché

A new model to describe the dynamics of particles undergoing diffusion in general relativity is proposed. The evolution of the particle system is described by a Fokker-Planck equation without friction on the tangent bundle of spacetime. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Simone Calogero

A thermodynamic system of non-interacting quantum particles changes its statistical distribution formulas if there is a universal limitation for the size of energetic quantum leaps (magnitude of quantum leaps smaller than Planck energy). By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Rainer Collier

We prove long-time contractivity estimates and exponential rates of convergence to equilibrium for solutions of hypoelliptic diffusion equations, which include the well-known Kolmogorov equation and similar kinetic Fokker-Planck equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nicolò Forcillo , Alessio Porretta

The Fokker-Planck Equation (FPE) is a fundamental tool for the investigation of kinematic aspects of a wide range of systems. For systems governed by the non-additive entropy $S_q$, the Plastino-Plastino Equation (PPE) is the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-13 Eugenio Megias , Airton Deppman , Roman Pasechnik , Constantino Tsallis

The problem of diffusion in a time-dependent (and generally inhomogeneous) external field is considered on the basis of a generalized master equation with two times, introduced in [1,2]. We consider the case of the quasi Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , O. F. Petrov , P. P. J. M. Schram

The Fokker-Planck equation describing the transport of energetic particles interacting with turbulence is difficult to solve analytically. Numerical solutions are of course possible but they are not always useful for applications. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi