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In this paper, we consider Langevin processes with mechanical constraints. The latter are a fundamental tool in molecular dynamics simulation for sampling purposes and for the computation of free energy differences. The results of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-19 Tony Lelievre , Mathias Rousset , Gabriel Stoltz

This work presents a systematic methodology for describing the transient dynamics of coarse-grained molecular systems inferred from all-atom simulated data. We suggest Langevin-type dynamics where the coarse-grained interaction potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 G. Baxevani , V. Harmandaris , E. Kalligiannaki , I. Tsantili

We study the Langevin dynamics of diffusive particles with regular pairwise interactions under mean-field scaling. By approximating empirical distributions with conditional distributions, we establish coercive and contractive properties for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Songbo Wang

In this article we investigate hypocoercivity of Langevin-type dynamics in nonlinear smooth geometries. The main result stating exponential decay to an equilibrium state with explicitly computable rate of convergence is rooted in an…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Martin Grothaus , Maximilian Mertin

We discuss here the validity of the small mass limit (the so-called Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation) on a fixed time interval for a class of semi-linear stochastic wave equations, both in the case of the presence of a constant friction…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Sandra Cerrai , Mark Freidlin , Michael Salins

D. B. Br\"{u}ckner et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058103 (2020)] have described a novel method for inferring the dynamics of systems governed by an underdamped Langevin equation in the presence of measurement noise. While this is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yeeren I. Low

We study hypercontractivity for the underdamped Langevin dynamics with a convex confining potential. Unlike in the overdamped case, the noise acts only on the velocity variable, so the usual argument based on the logarithmic Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Bowen Li , Jianfeng Lu

The present study is based on a recent success of the second-order stochastic fluctuation theory in describing time autocorrelations of equilibrium and nonequilibrium physical systems. In particular, it was shown to yield values of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Roman Belousov , E. G. D. Cohen , Lamberto Rondoni

Using a shortcut way we have derived the Fokker-Planck equation for the Langevin dynamics with a generalized frictional memory kernel and time-dependent force field. Then we have shown that this method is applicable for the non-Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-01 Joydip Das , Mousumi Biswas , Bidhan Chandra Bag

This note provides an introduction to molecular dynamics, the computational implementation of the theory of statistical physics. The discussion is focused on the properties of Langevin dynamics, a degenerate stochastic differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Gabriel Stoltz

The dynamical phase diagram of the fractional Langevin equation is investigated for harmonically bound particle. It is shown that critical exponents mark dynamical transitions in the behavior of the system. Four different critical exponents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Burov , E. Barkai

We study the compressible Navier-Stokes system driven by physically relevant transport noise, where the noise influences both the continuity and momentum equations. Our approach is based on transforming the system into a partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 D. Breit , E. Feireisl , M. Hofmanova , P. B. Mucha

Non-Markovian stochastic Langevin-like equations of motion are compared to their corresponding Markovian (local) approximations. The validity of the local approximation for these equations, when contrasted with the fully nonlocal ones, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-23 R. L. S. Farias , Rudnei O. Ramos , L. A. da Silva

We analyse a nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation that corresponds to a viscous shallow water equation (of the Camassa--Holm type) perturbed by a convective, position-dependent noise term. We establish the existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Helge Holden , Kenneth H. Karlsen , Peter H. C. Pang

For a stochastic system, its evolution from one state to another can have a large number of possible paths. Non-uniformity in the field of system variables leads the local dynamics in state transition varies considerably from path to path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang , Tie-jian Li , Ming-xi ZHANG , You Xia , Yu Zhang

We prove the convergence, in the small mass limit, of statistically invariant states for a class of semi-linear damped wave equations, perturbed by an additive Gaussian noise, both with Lipschitz-continuous and with polynomial…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Sandra Cerrai , Nathan Glatt-Holtz

Koopman liftings have been successfully used to learn high dimensional linear approximations for autonomous systems for prediction purposes, or for control systems for leveraging linear control techniques to control nonlinear dynamics. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Haldun Balim , Antoine Aspeel , Zexiang Liu , Necmiye Ozay

We investigate the stochastic motion of a Brownian particle in the harmonic potential with a time-dependent force constant. It may describe the motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap where the potential well is formed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 Chulan Kwon , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

In this paper, we examine the problem of sampling from log-concave distributions with (possibly) superlinear gradient growth under kinetic (underdamped) Langevin algorithms. Using a carefully tailored taming scheme, we propose two novel…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Iosif Lytras , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Systems with long range interactions present generically the formation of quasi-stationary long-lived non-equilibrium states. These states relax to Boltzmann equilibrium following a dynamics which is not well understood. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Marcos