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A class of Langevin stochastic differential equations is shown to converge in the small-mass limit under very weak assumptions on the coefficients defining the equation. The convergence result is applied to physically realizable examples…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-29 David P. Herzog , Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe

In this paper we study a second-order mean-field stochastic differential systems describing the movement of a particle under the influence of a time-dependent force, a friction, a mean-field interaction and a space and time-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-10 T. C. Son , D. Q. Le , M. H. Duong

Linear response theory is a fundamental framework studying the macroscopic response of a physical system to an external perturbation. This paper focuses on the rigorous mathematical justification of linear response theory for Langevin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu , Zibu Liu

We introduce a new probabilistic approach to quantify convergence to equilibrium for (kinetic) Langevin processes. In contrast to previous analytic approaches that focus on the associated kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, our approach is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Andreas Eberle , Arnaud Guillin , Raphael Zimmer

We consider the convergence of kinetic Langevin dynamics to its ergodic invariant measure, which is Gibbs distribution. Instead of the standard setup where the friction coefficient is a constant scalar, we investigate position-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Keunwoo Lim , Molei Tao

We study the convergence to equilibrium of an underdamped Langevin equation that is controlled by a linear feedback force. Specifically, we are interested in sampling the possibly multimodal invariant probability distribution of a Langevin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Tobias Breiten , Carsten Hartmann , Lara Neureither , Upanshu Sharma

This article deals with the realisation of constraints in underdamped Langevin dynamics via soft-constrained dynamics. Specifically, we study systems with a large (or small) parameter that controls the constraint mechanisms, e.g. the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Carsten Hartmann , Lara Neureither , Upanshu Sharma

This work is devoted to deriving small mass limiting equation for a class of Hamiltonian systems with multiplicative L\'evy noise. Derivation of the limiting equation depends on the structure of the stochastic Hamiltonian systems, in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Zibo Wang , Li Lv , Jinqiao Duan

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of motion for a fluid of active particles described by under- damped Langevin equations that reduce to the Active-Brownian-Particle model, in the overdamped limit. The contraction into the hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Stefano Steffenoni , Gianmaria Falasco , Klaus Kroy

We unify the variational hypocoercivity framework established by D. Albritton, S. Armstrong, J.-C. Mourrat, and M. Novack, with the notion of second-order lifts of reversible diffusion processes, recently introduced by A. Eberle and F.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Giovanni Brigati , Francis Lörler , Lihan Wang

We consider the dynamics of systems with arbitrary friction and diffusion. These include, as a special case, systems for which friction and diffusion are connected by Einstein fluctuation-dissipation relation, e.g. Brownian motion. We study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Scott Hottovy , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

The diffusive dynamics of a particle in a medium with space-dependent friction coefficient is studied within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. In this description, the ambiguous interpretation of the stochastic integral,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Aiming to establish a rigorous link between macroscopic random motion (described e.g. by Langevin-type theories) and microscopic dynamics, we have undertaken a kinetic-theoretical study of the dynamics of a classical test-particle weakly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Kourakis , A. P. Grecos

We study the validity of the so-called Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for a two dimensional system of stochastic partial differential equations, subject to a constant magnetic field. As the small mass limit does not yield to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Sandra Cerrai , Michael Salins

Ehrenfest, Born-Oppenheimer, Langevin and Smoluchowski dynamics are shown to be accurate approximations of time-independent Schr\"odinger observables for a molecular system avoiding caustics, in the limit of large ratio of nuclei and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Anders Szepessy

Kinetically-constrained models are lattice-gas models that are used for describing glassy systems. By construction, their equilibrium state is trivial and there are no equal-time correlations between the occupancy of different sites. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-01 Eial Teomy , Yair Shokef

We study the validity of a large deviation principle for a class of stochastic nonlinear damped wave equations, of Klein-Gordon type, in the joint small mass and small noise limit. The friction term is assumed to be state dependent.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie

We introduce a scheme for deriving an optimally-parametrised Langevin dynamics of few collective variables from data generated in molecular dynamics simulations. The drift and the position-dependent diffusion profiles governing the Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-22 Cristian Micheletti , Giovanni Bussi , Alessandro Laio

Many complex systems, ranging from migrating cells to animal groups, exhibit stochastic dynamics described by the underdamped Langevin equation. Inferring such an equation of motion from experimental data can provide profound insight into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 David B. Brückner , Pierre Ronceray , Chase P. Broedersz

The reduction of high-dimensional systems to effective models on a smaller set of variables is an essential task in many areas of science. For stochastic dynamics governed by diffusion processes, a general procedure to find effective…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Feliks Nüske , Péter Koltai , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi