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A discussion is given of Robert Brown's original observations of particles ejected by pollen of the plant \textit{Clarkia pulchella} undergoing what is now called Brownian motion. We consider the nature of those particles, and how he…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philip Pearle , Kenneth Bart , David Bilderback , Brian Collett , Dara Newman , Scott Samuels

Brownian motions in the infinite-dimensional group of all unitary operators are studied under strong continuity assumption rather than norm continuity. Every such motion can be described in terms of a countable collection of independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Tsirelson

We study a natural continuous time version of excited random walks, introduced by Norris, Rogers and Williams about twenty years ago. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for recurrence and for positive speed. This is analogous to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-19 Olivier Raimond , Bruno Schapira

We give a geometric description of the motion of eigenvalues of a Brownian motion with values in some matrix spaces. In the second part we consider a paper by Polya where he introduced a function close to the Riemann zeta function, which…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-11 Philippe Biane

The Brownian motion of a point particle induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations of a massless real scalar field in Einstein's universe is studied. By assuming the small displacement condition, the dispersion in the momentum and position of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 E. J. B. Ferreira , H. F. Santana Mota

We investigate the motion of an inert (massive) particle being impinged from below by a particle performing (reflected) Brownian motion. The velocity of the inert particle increases in proportion to the local time of collisions and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Sayan Banerjee , Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

By using the law of the excursions of Brownian motion with drift, we find the distribution of the $n-$th passage time of Brownian motion through a straight line $S(t)= a + bt.$ In the special case when $b = 0,$ we extend the result to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Mario Abundo

One usually refers the concept of Feynman path integral to the work of Norbert Wiener on Brownian motion in the early 1920s. This view is not false and we show in this article that Wiener used the first path integral of the history of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Daniel Parrochia

The relativistic generalization of a free Brownian motion theory is presented. The global characteristics of the relaxation are {\it explicitly} found for the velocity and momentum (stochastic) kinetics. It is shown that the thermal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 Ryszard Zygadło

Ornstein and his coauthors, who constructed a dynamical theory of Brownian motion, taking the equation $mdv/dt =-\zeta v+X$ as their starting point, usually named the equation after Einstein alone or after both Einstein and Langevin;…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Razi Naqvi

We study the movement of the living organism in a band form towards the presence of chemical substrate based on a system of partial differential evolution equations. We incorporate the Einstein's method of Brownian motion to deduce the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Rahnuma Islam , Akif Ibragimov

The indefinite integral of the homogenized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process is a well-known model for physical Brownian motion, modelling the behaviour of an object subject to random impulses [L. S. Ornstein, G. E. Uhlenbeck: On the theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Peter Friz , Paul Gassiat , Terry Lyons

We consider an infinite system of Brownian motions which interact through a given Brownian motion being reflected from its left neighbor. Earlier we studied this system for deterministic periodic initial configurations. In this contribution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Patrik L. Ferrari , Herbert Spohn , Thomas Weiss

We introduce a new Gaussian process, a generalization of both fractional and subfractional Brownian motions, which could serve as a good model for a larger class of natural phenomena. We study its main stochastic properties and some…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Mounir Zili

The quantum theory of Brownian motion is discussed in the Schwinger version wherein the notion of a coordinate moving forward in time $x(t)$ is replaced by two coordinates, $x_+(t)$ moving forward in time and $x_-(t)$ moving backward in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Blasone , Y. N. Srivastava , G. Vitiello , A. Widom

Development of the contemporary theory of physical phenomena in the microcosm is considered to be a result of development of Einstein's ideas on a possibility of the event space modification and on a possibility of stochastic (Brownian)…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

This is a review with some comments on the A. Einstein`s 1911 paper, which he published as one of his many attempts of the general theory of relativity. The main point of the idea is to propose a new approach about light and its motion as…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Rigoberto Martinez

The dynamics of a Brownian particle in a constant magnetic field and time-dependent electric field is studied in the limit of white noise, using a Langevin approach for the classical problem and the path-integral Feynman-Vernon and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-20 Marco Patriarca , Pasquale Sodano

It is a little known fact that while he was developing his theory of general relativity, Einstein's initial idea was a variable speed of light theory. Indeed space-time curvature can be mimicked by a speed of light $c(r)$ that depends on…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Alexander Unzicker , Jan Preuss

We consider the degenerate Einstein's Brownian motion model for the case when the time interval ($\tau$) of particle Jumps before collision (free jumps) reciprocal to the number of particles per unit volume $u(x,t) > 0$ at the point of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Zeev Sobol