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In this work, we investigate the large-scale transport properties of a passive scalar advected by a turbulent fluid, modelled as a superposition of divergence-free vector fields, each weighted by an independent symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Paolo Cifani , Franco Flandoli , Lorenzo Marino

The dissipation phenomena of relative entropy from an It\^o--Langevin dynamical system is a classic topic from stochastic analysis. Relying on the time-reversal of diffusions, a novel trajectorial approach investigates the pathwise behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Jiaming Chen

Two dimensional passive scalar turbulence is studied by means of a k-space diffusion model based on a third order differential approximation. This simple description of local nonlinear interactions in Fourier space is shown to present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-08 Pierre Morel , Shaokang Xu , Özgür D. Gürcan

Pre-asymptotic transport of a scalar quantity passively advected by a velocity field formed by a large-scale component superimposed to a small-scale fluctuation is investigated both analytically and by means of numerical simulations.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , A. Vulpiani

A framework to establish response theory for a class of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) is provided. More specifically, it is shown that for a certain class of observables, the averages of those observables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 Giulia Carigi , Tobias Kuna , Jochen Bröcker

For Kraichnan's problem of passive scalar advection by a velocity field delta-correlated in time, the limit of large space dimensionality $d\gg1$ is considered. Scaling exponents of the scalar field are analytically found to be…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Chertkov , G. Falkovich

There does not exist a notion of time which could be transferred straightforwardly from classical to quantum gravity. For this reason, a method of time quantification which would be appropriate for gravity quantization is being sought. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Nakonieczna , Dong-han Yeom

We investigate statistical properties of the passive scalar near boundaries (walls) in random (turbulent) flows assuming weakness of its diffusion. Then at advanced stages of the passive scalar mixing its unmixed residue is concentrated in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Chernykh , V. Lebedev

We provide the leading behavior at large wavenumbers of the two-point correlation function of a scalar field passively advected by a turbulent flow. We first consider the Kraichnan model, in which the turbulent carrier flow is modeled by a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-29 Carlo Pagani , Léonie Canet

This paper is concerned with a stochastic dissipativity theory using quadratic-exponential storage functions for open quantum systems with canonically commuting dynamic variables governed by quantum stochastic differential equations. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

We present a general class of spatio-temporal stochastic processes describing the causal evolution of a positive-valued field in space and time. The field construction is based on independently scattered random measures of Levy type whose…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Schmiegel , O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen , H. C. Eggers

Passive scalars advected by a magnetically driven two-dimensional turbulent flow are analyzed using methods of statistical topography. The passive tracer concentration is interpreted as the height of a random surface and the scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kondev , G. Huber

We introduce a fractional Fokker-Planck equation with a temporal power-law dependence on the drift force fields. For this case, the moments of the tracer from the force-force correlation in terms of the time-dependent drift force fields are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungsik Kim , Y. S. Kong

We propose a novel mechanism for the origin of non-Gaussian tails in the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of local variables in nonlinear, diffusive, dynamical systems including passive scalars advected by chaotic velocity fields.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ravi Bhagavatula , C. Jayaprakash

Gaussian random fields with Mat\'ern covariance functions are popular models in spatial statistics and machine learning. In this work, we develop a spatio-temporal extension of the Gaussian Mat\'ern fields formulated as solutions to a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-06 Finn Lindgren , Haakon Bakka , David Bolin , Elias Krainski , Håvard Rue

We study statistical properties of turbulent inverse cascades in a class of nonlinear models describing a scalar field transported by a two-dimensional incompressible flow. The class is characterized by a linear relation between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-20 G. Falkovich , S. Musacchio

The use of proper time as a tool for causality implementation in field theory is clarified and extended to allow a manifestly covariant definition of discrete fields proper to be applied in field theory and quantum mechanics. It implies on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M de Souza

We propose a stochastic interpretation of spacetime non-commutativity starting from the path integral formulation of quantum mechanical commutation relations. We discuss how the (non-)commutativity of spacetime is inherently related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Michele Arzano , Folkert Kuipers

We investigate the ghostfree scalar-tensor theory with a timelike scalar field, with derivatives of the scalar field up to the third order and with the Riemann tensor up to the quadratic order. We build two types of linear spaces. One is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Xian Gao

A recently proposed stochastic hidden variable model for quantum mechanics has been claimed to involve "retrocausality" due to the appearance of equations of motion with future-time boundary conditions. We formulate an equivalent system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 William S. DeWitt , Benjamin H. Feintzeig