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A study of the diffusion of a passive Brownian particle on the surface of a sphere and subject to the effects of an external potential, coupled linearly to the probability density of the particle's position, is presented through a numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Adriano Valdés Gómez , Francisco J. Sevilla

In this article we explore the phenomena of nonequilibrium stochastic process starting from the phenomenological Brownian motion. The essential points are described in terms of Einstein's theory of Brownian motion and then the theory…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Deb Shankar Ray

Smoluchowski's equation is a macroscopic description of a many particle system with coagulation and shattering interactions. We give a microscopic model of the system from which we derive this equation rigorously. Provided the existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Stefan Grosskinsky , Christian Klingenberg , Karl Oelschlaeger

Quantum decay rates for barrier potentials driven by external stochastic and periodic forces in the strong damping regime are studied. Based on the recently derived quantum Smoluchowski equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 086802 (2001)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joachim Ankerhold

The Brownian motion of a light quantum particle in a heavy classical gas is theoretically described and a new expression for the friction coefficient is obtained for arbitrary temperature. At zero temperature it equals to the de Broglie…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 R. Tsekov

Surprisingly the looking natural random walk leading to Brownian motion occurs to be often biased in a very subtle way: usually refers to only approximate fulfillment of thermodynamical principles like maximizing uncertainty. Recently, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jarek Duda

The Smoluchowski coagulation-diffusion PDE is a system of partial differential equations modelling the evolution in time of mass-bearing Brownian particles which are subject to short-range pairwise coagulation. This survey presents a fairly…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alan Hammond

We analyze the escape of Brownian particles over potential barriers using the Fokker-Planck equation in a similar way to that of Chandrasekhar (Rev. Modern Phys., 1943), deriving a formula for the particle deposition velocity to a surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-05 Michael W. Reeks

We generalize the classical theory of Brownian motion so as to reckon with non-Markovian effects on both Klein-Kramers and Smoluchowski equations. For a free particle and a harmonic oscillator, it is shown that such non-Markovian effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. O. Bolivar

We present the stochastic Schroedinger equation for the dynamics of a quantum particle coupled to a high temperature environment and apply it the dynamics of a driven, damped, nonlinear quantum oscillator. Apart from an initial slip on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter T. Strunz , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin , Ting Yu

The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Mohammad Reza Yaghouti , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou , Alan Hammond

A nonlinear theory of quantum Brownian motion in classical environment is developed based on a thermodynamically enhanced nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The latter is transformed via the Madelung transformation into a nonlinear quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Roumen Tsekov

We derive explicit forms of Markovian transition probability densities for the velocity space, phase-space and the Smoluchowski configuration-space Brownian motion of a charged particle in a constant magnetic field. By invoking a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Czopnik , P. Garbaczewski

Quantum Stochastic Walks (QSW) allow for a generalization of both quantum and classical random walks by describing the dynamic evolution of an open quantum system on a network, with nodes corresponding to quantum states of a fixed basis. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Nicola Dalla Pozza , Filippo Caruso

The Smoluchowsky equation for a system of interacting Brownian particles in a temperature gradient is derived from the Kramers equation by means of a multiple time-scale method. The interparticle interactions are assumed to be represented…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

An active Brownian particle is a minimal model for a self-propelled colloid in a dissipative environment. Experiments and simulations show that, in the presence of boundaries and obstacles, active Brownian particle systems approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We develop a formally exact technique for obtaining steady-state distributions of non-interacting active Brownian particles in a variety of systems. Our technique draws on results from the theory of two-way diffusion equations to solve the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-06 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in a constricted two-dimensional channel and analyze how the onset of quantum corrections impacts the (semi-)classical high-temperature behaviour, as temperature is lowered. We characterize both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Paolo Malgaretti , Francesco Petiziol , Alexander Schnell

"Quantum trajectories" are solutions of stochastic differential equations also called Belavkin or Stochastic Schr\"odinger Equations. They describe random phenomena in quantum measurement theory. Two types of such equations are usually…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Clement Pellegrini