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This article presents a brief account of Amir O. Caldeira's contributions to the theory of quantum Brownian motion. Motivated by its importance, we outline the description of Brownian motion in the quantum regime following Caldeira's first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Marcus V. S. Bonança , Sebastian Deffner , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Einstein's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion, based upon light water molecules continuously bombarding a heavy pollen, provided an explanation of diffusion from the Newtonian mechanics. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics it has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Laszlo Erdos

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

Brownian motion is a foundational physical process characterized by a mean squared displacement that scales linearly in time in thermal equilibrium, known as diffusion. At short times, the mean squared displacement becomes ballistic,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jason Boynewicz , Michael C. Thumann , Mark G. Raizen

We consider the degenerate Einsteins Brownian motion model when the time interval of the moving particles before the collisions, is reciprocal to the number of particles per unit volume u(x,t), at the point of observation x at time t. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Zeev Sobol

It is known that a full description of Brownian motion in the entire course of time should incorporate both kinetic and hydrodynamic effects, but a formula accounts for both effects has been established only in three dimension and only for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-13 Hanqing Zhao , Hong Zhao

The fractional Brownian motion is a generalization of ordinary Brownian motion, used particularly when long-range dependence is required. Its explicit introduction is due to B.B. Mandelbrot and J.W. van Ness (1968) as a self-similar…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-11 Tamas Szabados

Consider an n-fold integrated Brownian motion. We show that a simple change in time and scale transforms it into a stationary Gaussian process. The collection of stationary processes so constructed not only constitutes an interesting family…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eugene Wong

Albert Einstein postulated the equivalence of energy and mass, developed the theory of special relativity, explained the photoelectric effect, and described Brownian motion in five papers, all published in 1905, 100 years ago. With these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles L. Bennett

Let $B=\{ B_{t}\} _{t\ge 0}$ be a one-dimensional standard Brownian motion. As an application of a recent result of ours on exponential functionals of Brownian motion, we show in this paper that, for every fixed $t>0$, the process given by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Yuu Hariya

We construct a model of Brownian Motion on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold associated with general relativity. There are two aspects of the problem: The first is to define a sequence of stopping times associated with the Brownian "kicks" or…

General Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Paul O'Hara , Lamberto Rondoni

We consider processes which have the distribution of standard Brownian motion (in the forward direction of time) starting from random points on the trajectory which accumulate at $-\infty$. We show that these processes do not have to have…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Krzysztof Burdzy , Michael Scheutzow

The aim of this paper is to remember and review several exceptional investigations on the theory of the Brownian motion. Although in these works the first correct hydrodynamic theories of the translational and rotational Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Lisy , J. Tothova

The motion of a particle under the influence of a dynamical disorder is described by the DLD model. One motivation is to understand the motion of an electron inside a metal; Another is to understand quantal Brownian motion. The overview is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Doron Cohen

Quantum brownian motion is a fundamental model for a proper understanding of open quantum systems in different contexts such as chemistry, condensed matter physics, bio-physics and opto- mechamics. In this paper we propose a novel approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Matteo Carlesso , Angelo Bassi

This is a guide to the mathematical theory of Brownian motion and related stochastic processes, with indications of how this theory is related to other branches of mathematics, most notably the classical theory of partial differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Jim Pitman , Marc Yor

In this note, we combine the two approaches of Billingsley (1998) and Cs\H{o}rg\H{o} and R\'ev\'esz (1980), to provide a detailed sequential and descriptive for creating s standard Brownian motion, from a Brownian motion whose time space is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Lo Gane Samb , Niang Aladji Babacar , Sangare Harouna

A theoretical parallel between the classical Brownian motion and quantum mechanics is explored. It is shown that, in contrast to the classical Langevin force, quantum mechanics is driven by turbulent velocity fluctuations with diffusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Roumen Tsekov

Treating the motion of a dust particle suspended in a liquid as a random walk, Einstein in 1905 derived an equation describing the diffusion of the particle's probability distribution in configuration space. Fokker and Planck extended this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edmund Bertschinger

The invariance properties of Brownian motion are investigated and revisited within a recent Lie symmetry approach to stochastic differential equations. Some notable properties of the process can be recovered by a related integration by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Susanna Dehò , Francesco C. De Vecchi , Paola Morando , Stefania Ugolini