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This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

A set of quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived from the moments of the electrostatic mean-field Wigner kinetic equation. No assumptions are made on the particular local equilibrium or on the statistical ensemble wave functions. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , J. Zamanian

We consider reversible diffusions in random environment and prove the Einstein relation for this model. It says that the derivative of the effective velocity under an additional local drift equals the diffusivity of the model without drift.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Nina Gantert , Pierre Mathieu , Andrey Piatnitski

We study a simple microscopic model for the one-dimensional stochastic motion of a (non)relativistic Brownian particle, embedded into a heat bath consisting of (non)relativistic particles. The stationary momentum distributions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

We consider the magnetic Lorentz gas proposed by Bobylev et al. [4], which describes a point particle moving in a random distribution of hard-disk obstacles in $\mathbb{R}^2$ under the influence of a constant magnetic field perpendicular to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Alessia Nota , Dominik Nowak , Chiara Saffirio

A semiclassical kinetic theory is presented for the fluctuating photon flux emitted by a disordered medium in thermal equilibrium. The kinetic equation is the optical analog of the Boltzmann-Langevin equation for electrons. Vacuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the Einstein relation between diffusion and response to an external field in systems showing superdiffusion. In particular, we investigate a continuous time Levy walk where the velocity remains constant for a time \tau, with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-28 Giacomo Gradenigo , Alessandro Sarracino , Dario Villamaina , Angelo Vulpiani

We study the discrete nonlinear Schr\"oinger equation with weak disorder, focusing on the regime when the nonlinearity is, on the one hand, weak enough for the normal modes of the linear problem to remain well resolved, but on the other,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-25 D. M. Basko

Consider the motion of a charged, point particle moving in the complement of a Poisson distribution of hard sphere scatterers in two dimensions under the effect of a fixed magnetic field. Building on, and extending a coupling method…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Christopher Lutsko , Balint Toth

We present a relativistic formulation of noncommutative mechanics were the object of noncommutativity $\theta^{\mu\nu}$ is considered as an independent quantity. Its canonical conjugate momentum is also introduced, what permits to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 R. Amorim , E. M. C. Abreu , W. G. Ramirez

We introduce non-linear diffusion in a classical diffusion advection model with non local aggregative coupling on the circle, that exhibits a transition from an uncoherent state to a coherent one when the coupling strength is increased. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-03-01 Khashayar Pakdaman , Xavier Pellegrin

We investigate the diffusion of particles in an attractive one-dimensional potential that grows logarithmically for large $|x|$ using the Fokker-Planck equation. An eigenfunction expansion shows that the Boltzmann equilibrium density does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Dechant , E. Lutz , E. Barkai , D. A. Kessler

In spite of the large number of papers appeared in the past which are devoted to the lattice Boltzmann (LB) methods, basic aspects of the theory still remain unchallenged. An unsolved theoretical issue is related to the construction of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico Fonda , Massimo Tessarotto , Marco Ellero

A nonlinear diffusion equation is proposed to account for thermalization in fermionic and bosonic systems through analytical solutions. For constant transport coefficients, exact time-dependent solutions are derived through nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Georg Wolschin

In the study of concavity properties of positive solutions to nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations the diffusion and the nonlinearity are typically independent of the space variable. In this paper we obtain new results aiming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Nouf Almousa , Claudia Bucur , Roberta Cornale , Marco Squassina

Einstein's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion, based upon light water molecules continuously bombarding a heavy pollen, provided an explanation of diffusion from the Newtonian mechanics. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Laszlo Erdos

This work studies nonnegative solutions for the Cauchy, Neumann, and Dirichlet problems of a logistic type reaction-diffusion equation. The finite time blowup results for nonnegative solutions under various restrictions on the coefficients…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chu-Pin Lo

A class of linear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with a non-trivial diffusion matrix and with periodic boundary conditions in the spatial variable is considered. After formulating the problem in a geometric setting, the question of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Simone Calogero

We provide the rigorous derivation of the wave kinetic equation from the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation at the kinetic timescale, under a particular scaling law that describes the limiting process. This solves a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

This paper discusses the somewhat unintuitive conjecture that many Lorentz-invariant many-particle models can be reinterpreted to satisfy the gtr field equations. It is shown that a careful remapping of coordinates yields a non-trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Niclas Thisell
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