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The fundamental importance of functional differential equations has been recognized in many areas of mathematical physics, such as fluid dynamics (Hopf characteristic functional equation), quantum field theory (Schwinger-Dyson equations)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Daniele Venturi

The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Neetu Garg , Varsha R

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We study exact solutions of the steady state behaviour of several non-linear open quantum systems which can be applied to the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics. Using Fokker-Planck equations in the generalised P-representation we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Matthew Elliott , Eran Ginossar

The steady state of the Fokker-Planck equation corresponding to a density dependent one-step process is approximated by a suitable normal distribution. Starting from the master equations of the process, written in terms of the time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter L. Simon , Eszter Sikolya

Variational analysis provides the theoretical foundations and practical tools for constructing optimization algorithms without being restricted to smooth or convex problems. We survey the central concepts in the context of a concrete but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Johannes O. Royset

We consider a simple quantum system subjected to a classical random force. Under certain conditions it is shown that the noise-averaged Wigner function of the system follows an integro-differential stochastic Liouville equation. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Salman Habib

A lattice version of the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE), accounting for dissipative interactions, not resolved on the molecular scale, is introduced. The lattice FPE is applied to the study of electrorheological transport of a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Melchionna , S. Succi , J. -P. Hansen

The stochastization of the Jacobi second equality of classical mechanics, by Gaussian white noises for the Lagrangian of a particle in an arbitrary field is considered. The quantum mechanical Hamilton operator similar to that in Euclidian…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tchoffo , A. A. Belinson

A mixture of light-gas particles and Brownian heavy particles is analyzed within the framework of a post-Newtonian Boltzmann equation to determine the Fokker-Planck equation for the Brownian motion. For each species, the equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gilberto M. Kremer

Quantum heuristics have shown promise in solving various optimization problems, including lattice protein folding. Equally relevant is the inverse problem, protein design, where one seeks sequences that fold to a given target structure. The…

Computer-aided engineering techniques are indispensable in modern engineering developments. In particular, partial differential equations are commonly used to simulate the dynamics of physical phenomena, but very large systems are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Yuki Sato , Ruho Kondo , Satoshi Koide , Hideki Takamatsu , Nobuyuki Imoto

We exactly solve a Fokker-Planck equation by determining its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions: we construct nonlinear second-order differential operators which act as raising and lowering operators, generating ladder spectra for the odd and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Arvedson , M. Wilkinson , B. Mehlig , K. Nakamura

Algorithmic discrepancy theory seeks efficient algorithms to find those two-colorings of a set that minimize a given measure of coloring imbalance in the set, its {\it discrepancy}. The {\it Euclidean discrepancy} problem and the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jiří Lebl , Asif Shakeel

The stationary distribution of a fully chaotic system typically exhibits a fractal structure, which dramatically changes if the dynamical equations are even slightly modified. Perturbative techniques are not expected to work in this…

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Fractional kinetic theory plays a vital role in describing anomalous diffusion in terms of complex dynamics generating semi-Markovian processes. Recently, the variational principle and associated Levy Ansatz have been proposed in order to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-15 Sumiyoshi Abe

While accurate simulations of dense gas flows far from the equilibrium can be achieved by Direct Simulation adapted to the Enskog equation, the significant computational demand required for collisions appears as a major constraint. In order…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Mohsen Sadr , M. Hossein Gorji

In this work, we are concerned with the Fokker-Planck equations associated with the Nonlinear Noisy Leaky Integrate-and-Fire model for neuron networks. Due to the jump mechanism at the microscopic level, such Fokker-Planck equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Jingwei Hu , Jian-Guo Liu , Yantong Xie , Zhennan Zhou

This paper introduces a general class of Replicator-Mutator equations on a multi-dimensional fitness space. We establish a novel probabilistic representation of weak solutions of the equation by using the theory of Fockker-Planck-Kolmogorov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Lijun Bo , Huafu Liao

Multi-phase phenomena remain at the heart of many challenging fluid dynamics problems. Molecular fluxes at the interface determine the fate of neighboring phases, yet their closure far from the continuum needs to be modeled. Along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-11 Mohsen Sadr , Marcel Pfeiffer , M. Hossein Gorji