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We introduce a novel spatio-temporal discretization for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations on the multi-dimensional unit cube. This discretization is based on two structural properties of these equations: the first is the representation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

We provide a mathematical analysis of appearance of the concentrations (as Dirac masses) of the solution to a Fokker-Planck system with asymmetric potentials. This problem has been proposed as a model to describe motor proteins moving along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benoit Perthame , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

In this paper we focus on the construction of numerical schemes for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations that preserve the structural properties, like non negativity of the solution, entropy dissipation and large time behavior. The methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

In many recent applications when new materials and technologies are developed it is important to describe and simulate new nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion transport processes. A general class of such models deals with nonlocal fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Raimondas Ciegis , Petr Vabishchevich

A study of the non-dissipative Brownian motion in vacuum is presented. The noise source associated to the stochastic process assumed in this work is vacuum fluctuations of some quantum field capable of interact with a massive particle. For…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. A. Figueiredo

The relaxation to equilibrium in many systems which show strange kinetics is described by fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPEs). These can be considered as phenomenological equations of linear nonequilibrium theory. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. M. Sokolov

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

Electrostatic correlations and fluctuations in ionic systems can be described within an extended Poisson-Boltzmann theory using a Gaussian variational form. The resulting equations are challenging to solve because they require the solution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Zhenli Xu , A. C. Maggs

The fractional calculus of variations and fractional optimal control are generalizations of the corresponding classical theories, that allow problem modeling and formulations with arbitrary order derivatives and integrals. Because of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Shakoor Pooseh

The aim of this contribution is to study the particle dynamics in a storage ring under the influence of noise. Some simplified stochastic beam dynamics problems are treated by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equations numerically.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Mais , M. P. Zorzano

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , A. Baule , S. Eule

The fractional Fokker-Planck system with multiple internal states is derived in [Xu and Deng, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., $\mathbf{13}$, 10 (2018)], where the space derivative is Laplace operator. If the jump length distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

Variational quantum algorithms involve training parameterized quantum circuits using a classical co-processor. An important variational algorithm, designed for combinatorial optimization, is the quantum approximate optimization algorithm.…

We propose an algorithm based on variational quantum imaginary time evolution for solving the Feynman-Kac partial differential equation resulting from a multidimensional system of stochastic differential equations. We utilize the…

We develop Cresson's nondifferentiable calculus of variations on the space of H\"{o}lder functions. Several quantum variational problems are considered: with and without constraints, with one and more than one independent variable, of first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We propose a new approach to describe the effective microscopic dynamics of (power-law) nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations. Our formalism is based on a nonextensive generalization of the Wiener process. This allow us to obtain, in addition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-17 Leonardo Santos

The existence and uniqueness of measure-valued solutions to stochastic nonlinear, non-local Fokker-Planck equations is proven. This type of stochastic PDE is shown to arise in the mean field limit of weakly interacting diffusions with…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Michele Coghi , Benjamin Gess

We consider a class of nonlinear partial-differential equations, including the spatially homogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau equation for Maxwell (or pseudo-Maxwell) molecules. Continuing the work of Fontbona-Gu\'erin-M\'el\'eard, we propose a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Nicolas Fournier

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

We solve the problem of formulating Brownian motion in a relativistically covariant framework in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions. We obtain covariant Fokker-Planck equations with (for the isotropic case) a differential operator of invariant…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Oron , L. P. Horwitz