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The general covariant Fokker-Planck equations associated with the two different versions of covariant Langevin equation in Part I of this series of work are derived, both lead to the same reduced Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

We solve a physically significant extension of a classic problem in the theory of diffusion, namely the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process [G. E. Ornstein and L. S. Uhlenbeck, Phys. Rev. 36, 823, (1930)]. Our generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bezuglyy , B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , K. Nakamura , E. Arvedson

Fokker-Planck equation with the velocity-dependent coefficients is considered for various isotropic systems on the basis of probability transition (PT) approach. This method provides the self-consistent and universal description of friction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Trigger

In this paper, we study the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation where the confining potential is non-convex. This is a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation describing the time evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut

The normalization condition, average values and reduced distribution functions can be generalized by fractional integrals. The interpretation of the fractional analog of phase space as a space with noninteger dimension is discussed. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

The method of potential solutions of Fokker-Planck equations is used to develop a transport equation for the joint probability of N stochastic variables with Lochner's generalized Dirichlet distribution (R.H. Lochner, A Generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

We investigate the diffusion of particles in an attractive one-dimensional potential that grows logarithmically for large $|x|$ using the Fokker-Planck equation. An eigenfunction expansion shows that the Boltzmann equilibrium density does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Dechant , E. Lutz , E. Barkai , D. A. Kessler

Stochastic differential equations with Levy motion arise the mathematical models for various phenomenon in geophysical and biochemical sciences. The Fokker Planck equation for such a stochastic differential equations is a nonlocal partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Li Lin

We consider a Markovian jumping process which is defined in terms of the jump-size distribution and the waiting-time distribution with a position-dependent frequency, in the diffusion limit. We assume the power-law form for the frequency.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 T. Srokowski , A. Kaminska

We study Brownian motion driven with both conservative and nonconservative external forces. By using the thermodynamic approach of the theory of Brownian motion we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation and derive expressions for the Fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Perez-Madrid , I. Santamaria-Holek

An integral relation is derived from the Fokker-Planck equation which connects the steady-state probability currents with the dynamics of relaxation on short timescales in the limit of small perturbation fields. As a consequence of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrea Auconi

We derive a stochastic wave equation for an inflaton in an environment of an infinite number of fields. We study solutions of the linearized stochastic evolution equation in an expanding universe. The Fokker-Planck equation for the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 Z. Haba

We consider a continuous random walk model for describing normal as well as anomalous diffusion of particles subjected to an external force when these particles diffuse in a uniformly expanding (or contracting) medium. A general equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

In this paper we analyze fractional Fokker-Planck equation describing subdiffusion in the general infinitely divisible (ID) setting. We show that in the case of space-time-dependent drift and diffusion and time-dependent jump coefficient,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Marcin Magdziarz , Tomasz Zorawik

The Fokker-Planck equation has been very useful for studying dynamic behavior of stochastic differential equations driven by Gaussian noises. In this paper, we derive a Fractional Fokker--Planck equation for the probability distribution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 D. Schertzer , M. Larchev , J. Duan , V. V. Yanovsky , S. Lovejoy

Subdiffusive transport in tilted washboard potentials is studied within the fractional Fokker-Planck equation approach, using the associated continuous time random walk (CTRW) framework. The scaled subvelocity is shown to obey a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-01 I. M. Sokolov , E. Heinsalu , P. Hanggi , I. Goychuk

We investigate front propagation in a reacting particle system in which particles perform scale-free random walks known as Levy flights. The system is described by a fractional generalization of a reaction-diffusion equation. We focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Brockmann , L. Hufnagel

The focus of our study in this paper is on the active dynamics and a fractional generalized Langevin equation with a memory kernel K(t). The Fokker-Planck equation is obtained by deriving it from a second-order differential equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Yun Jeong Kang , Kyungsik Kim

Polarization in ferroelectrics, described by the Landau-Ginzburg Hamiltonian, is considered, based on a multi-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation. This formulation describes the time evolution of the probability distribution function over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Kaupuzs , J. Rimshans , N. F. Smyth

A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang