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We analyze the instanton transitions in the framework of the gauge invariant variational calculation in the pure Yang-Mills theory. Instantons are identified with the saddle points in the integration over the gauge group which projects the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 William E. Brown , Juan P. Garrahan , Ian I. Kogan , Alex Kovner

Instantons play a crucial role in understanding non-perturbative dynamics in quantum field theories, including those with spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. In the broken phase, finite-size instanton-like configurations are no longer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Takafumi Aoki , Masahiro Ibe , Satoshi Shirai

We investigate two-dimensional turbulence within the Instanton formalism which determines the most probable field in a stochastic classical field theory starting from the Martin-Siggia-Rose path integral. We perform an approximate analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 Kaj Kolja Kleineberg , Rudolf Friedrich

We consider in detail how the quantum-mechanical tunneling phenomenon occurs in a well-behaved octic potential. Our main tool will be the euclidean propagator just evaluated between two minima of the potential at issue. For such a purpose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Casahorran

Skewness and non-Gaussian behavior are essential features of the distribution of short-scale velocity increments in isotropic turbulent flows. Yet, although the skewness has been generally linked to time-reversal symmetry breaking and…

We describe the modern formalism, ideas and applications of the instanton calculus for gauge theories with, and without, supersymmetry. Particular emphasis is put on developing a formalism that can deal with any number of instantons. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nick Dorey , Timothy J. Hollowood , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael P. Mattis

This paper provides a probabilistic approach to solve linear equations involving Caputo and Riemann-Liouville type derivatives. Using the probabilistic interpretation of these operators as the generators of interrupted Feller processes, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-07 M. E. Hernández-Hernández , V. N. Kolokoltsov

We study the quantum-mechanical tunneling phenomenon in models which include the existence of non-equivalent vacua. For such a purpose we evaluate the euclidean propagator between two minima of the potential at issue in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Casahorran

In this paper we study the distribution tails and the moments of a condition number which arises in the study of homogeneous systems of linear inequalities. We consider the case where this system is defined by a Gaussian random matrix and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Dennis Cheung , Felipe Cucker , Raphael Hauser

We study the velocity distribution function for inelastic Maxwell models, characterized by a Boltzmann equation with constant collision rate, independent of the energy of the colliding particles. By means of a nonlinear analysis of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthieu H. Ernst , Ricardo Brito

A novel model of intermittency is presented in which the dynamics of the rates of energy transfer between successive steps in the energy cascade is described by a hierarchy of stochastic differential equations. The probability distribution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-27 Domingos S. P. Salazar , Giovani L. Vasconcelos

By optimal fluctuation method, we study short-time distribution $P(\mathcal{A}=A)$ of the functionals, $\mathcal{A}=\int_{0}^{t_f} x^n(t) dt$, along constrained trajectories of random acceleration process for a given time duration $t_f$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Hanshuang Chen , Lulu Tian , Guofeng Li

Understanding intermittency of turbulent systems from the underlying differential equations is an outstanding problem in fluid dynamics. Here, in the example of Burgers turbulence as a stringent test, we introduce a method that yields…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Timo Schorlepp , Rainer Grauer

It has been shown recently that intermittency of the Gledzer Ohkitani Yamada (GOY) shell model of turbulence has to be related to singular structures whose dynamics in the inertial range includes interactions with a background of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Daumont , T. Dombre , J. -L. Gilson

We present a path integral calculation of the probability distribution associated with the time-integrated moments of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process that includes the Gaussian prefactor in addition to the dominant path or instanton term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-07 Daniel Nickelsen , Hugo Touchette

We study the tail of $p(U)$, the probability distribution of $U=\vert\psi(0,L)\vert^2$, for $\ln U\gg 1$, $\psi(x,z)$ being the solution to $\partial_z\psi -\frac{i}{2m}\nabla_{\perp}^2 \psi =g\vert S\vert^2\, \psi$, where $S(x,z)$ is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Philippe Mounaix

The instanton contribution to the quark distribution functions in the nucleon is estimated. It is shown, that taking into account the instanton induced interaction between quarks allows to explain the anomalous violation of the Ellis-Jaffe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Kochelev

We investigate statistical properties of vorticity fluctuations in fully developed turbulence, which are known to exhibit a strong intermittent behavior. Taking as the starting point the Navier-Stokes equations with a random force term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi

Extreme events and the heavy tail distributions driven by them are ubiquitous in various scientific, engineering and financial research. They are typically associated with stochastic instability caused by hidden unresolved processes.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Andrew J. Majda , Xin T. Tong

In the present Short Note an idea is proposed to explain the emergence and the observation of processes in complex media that are driven by fractional non-Markovian master equations. Particle trajectories are assumed to be solely Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianni Pagnini