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Bayesian inference can be embedded into an appropriately defined dynamics in the space of probability measures. In this paper, we take Brownian motion and its associated Fokker--Planck equation as a starting point for such embeddings and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Sebastian Reich , Simon Weissmann

We study the rate of convergence to equilibrium of the solutions to Fokker-Planck type equations with linear drift by means of Cram\'er and Energy distances, which have been recently widely used in problems related to AI, in particular for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gennaro Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani

This study investigates the asymptotic dynamics of solutions to the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation, with a specific focus on ship roll stability in dynamic sea conditions. Utilizing a fourth-order filter, we conduct a thorough…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Abdelkader Tizaoui

We develop the stochastic approach to thermodynamics based on the stochastic dynamics, which can be discrete (master equation) continuous (Fokker-Planck equation), and on two assumptions concerning entropy. The first is the definition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

In this letter, by establishing the Schr\"odinger equation of the optimization problem, the optimization problem is transformed into a constrained state quantum problem with the objective function as the potential energy. The mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Peng Wang , Gang Xin , Yuwei Jiao

In this paper, we study the numerical approximation of a system of PDEs with fractional time derivatives. This system is derived from an optimal control problem for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with time dependent drift by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Fabio Camilli , Serikbolsyn Duisembay , Qing Tang

A stochastic treatment yielding to the derivation of a general Fokker-Planck equation is presented to model the slow convergence towards equilibrium of mean-field systems due to finite-N effects. The thermalization process involves notably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 W. Ettoumi , M. -C. Firpo

A supersymmetric method for the construction of so-called conditionally exactly solvable quantum systems is reviewed and extended to classical stochastic dynamical systems characterized by a Fokker-Planck equation with drift. A class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Junker

We study the long time behaviour of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with mean field interaction, whose limit is often called Vlasov-Fkker-Planck equation. We prove a uniform (in the number of particles) exponential convergence to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Arnaud Guillin , Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

We consider the linear Wigner-Fokker-Planck equation subject to confining potentials which are smooth perturbations of the harmonic oscillator potential. For a certain class of perturbations we prove that the equation admits a unique…

We perform a numerical approximation of coherent sets in finite-dimensional smooth dynamical systems by computing singular vectors of the transfer operator for a stochastically perturbed flow. This operator is obtained by solution of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Andreas Denner , Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes

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

We study the rate of convergence to equilibrium of the solution of a Fokker--Planck type equation introduced by one of the authors in 2006 to describe opinion formation in a multi-agent system. The main feature of this Fokker--Planck…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Giulia Furioli , Ada Pulvirenti , Elide Terraneo , Giuseppe Toscani

We introduce a new class of stochastic processes which are stationary, Markovian and characterized by an infinite range of time-scales. By transforming the Fokker-Planck equation of the process into a Schrodinger equation with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Lillo , Salvatore Micciche' , Rosario N. Mantegna

We study a Fokker-Planck equation with double-well potential that is nonlocally driven by a dynamical constraint and involves two small parameters. Relying on formal asymptotics we identify several parameter regimes and derive reduced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Michael Herrmann , Barbara Niethammer , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We present a general framework in which we can accurately describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of trapped atomic gases. This is achieved by deriving a single Fokker-Planck equation for the gas. In this way we are able to discuss not only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. C. Stoof

We introduce a new class of Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical framework. These equations describe a gas of Langevin particles in interaction. The free energy can take various forms which can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We perform a detailed analysis of the non stationary solutions of the evolution (Fokker-Planck) equations associated to either stationary or non stationary quantum states by the stochastic mechanics. For the excited stationary states of…

This thesis covers various aspects of open systems in classical and quantum mechanics. In the first part, we deal with classical systems. The bath-of-oscillators formalism is used to describe an open system, and the phenomenological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-04 Lee Chee Kong

The Fokker-Planck Equation, applied to transport processes in fusion plasmas, can model several anomalous features, including uphill transport, scaling of confinement time with system size, and convective propagation of externally induced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-05 D. F. Escande , F. Sattin