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In this paper, we extend the spectral method developed [Dechicha and Puel, 2023] to any dimension $d\geqslant 1$, in order to construct an eigen-solution for the Fokker-Planck operator with heavy tail equilibria, of the form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dahmane Dechicha , Marjolaine Puel

Relaxation dynamics of embedded metal nanoparticles after ultrafast laser pulse excitation is driven by thermal phenomena of different origins the accurate description of which is crucial for interpreting experimental results: hot electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Majid Rashidi-Huyeh , Sebastian Volz , Bruno Palpant

Electron-phonon interactions play a key role in many branches of solid-state physics. Here, our focus is on the transport properties of one-dimensional systems, and we apply efficient real-time matrix-product state methods to compute the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 David Jansen , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

We study the formation and the evolution of velocity distribution tails for systems with long-range interactions. In the thermal bath approximation, the evolution of the distribution function of a test particle is governed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Mohammed Lemou

In a previous paper (Paper I) we developed a technique for exactly solving the linearized Boltzmann equation for the electrical and thermal transport coefficients in metals in the low-temperature limit. Here we adapt this technique to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Amarel , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

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

The Navier--Stokes order hydrodynamic equations for a low-density driven granular mixture obtained previously [Khalil and Garz\'o, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{88}, 052201 (2013)] from the Chapman--Enskog solution to the Boltzmann equation are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-08 Nagi Khalil , Vicente Garzó

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

This paper is devoted to the rigorous derivation of the macroscopic limit of a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in which the Laplacian is replaced by a fractional Laplacian. The evolution of the density is governed by a fractional heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Ludovic Cesbron

We present here a theoretical method to determine the phononic contribution to the thermal conductance of nanoscale systems in the phase-coherent regime. Our approach makes use of classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Fabian Müller , Peter Nielaba , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Fabian Pauly

Many complex systems are described by Langevin-type equations in which the noise exhibits long-range correlations and couples to the system in a state-dependent, multiplicative manner, leading to heterogeneous non-Markovian diffusion. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 David Santiago Quevedo , Felipe Segundo Abril-Bermúdez , Cristiane Morais Smith

We study the long-time dynamics of two-dimensional linear Fokker-Planck equations driven by a drift that can be decomposed in the sum of a large shear component and the gradient of a regular potential depending on one spatial variable. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Michele Coti Zelati , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

By collecting from literature data the experimental evidences of anomalous diffusion of passive tracers inside cytoplasm, and in particular of subdiffusion of mRNA molecules inside live E. coli cells, we get the probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-05 Claudio Runfola , Silvia Vitali , Gianni Pagnini

The state-dependent diffusion, which concerns the Brownian motion of a particle in inhomogeneous media has been described phenomenologically in a number of ways. Based on a system-reservoir nonlinear coupling model we present a microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debashis Barik , Deb Shankar Ray

Coherent thermal transport in nanopatterned structures is a topic of considerable interest, but whether it occurs in certain structures remains unclear due to poor understanding of which phonons conduct heat. Here, we perform the first…

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We study heat transport in semiconductor nanostructures by solving the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) by means of the Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM). Relaxation time and phase and group velocitiy spectral dependencies are taken into…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Damian Terris , Karl Joulain , David Lacroix , Denis Lemonnier

We first propose fundamental solutions of wave propagation in one-dimensional dispersive chain subject to a localized initial perturbation in the displacement. Analytical solutions are obtained for both second order nonlinear dispersive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-31 Zhijie Xu

Through multiscale analysis of the adjoint Fokker-Planck equation, strict bounds are derived for the center of mass diffusivity of an overdamped harmonic chain in a periodic potential, often known as the discrete Frenkel-Kontorova model.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-30 T. D. Swinburne

We develop a general framework for response theory in diffusion processes governed by Fokker-Planck equations, based on the notion of the Dissipation Function. Using the analytically solvable Brownian oscillator model, we derive exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni , Pasquale Vozza

A drift-diffusion model of miniband transport in strongly coupled superlattices is derived from the single-miniband Boltzmann-Poisson transport equation with a BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) collision term. We use a consistent Chapman-Enskog…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla , R. Escobedo , A. Perales
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