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We consider a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle (RTP) confined by an external potential and coupled to a thermal reservoir. Starting from the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, we derive an explicit expression for the local entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-11 Oded Farago

This papers deals with overall phase transformation kinetics. The Fokker-Planck type equation is derived from the generalized nucleation theory proposed by Binder and Stauffer. Existence of the steady state solution is shown by a method…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiyuki Saito

This thesis is devoted to the theoretical study of slow thermodynamic processes in non-equilibrium stochastic systems. Its main result is a physically and mathematically consistent construction of relevant thermodynamic quantities in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 Jiří Pešek

We consider a rather general class of non-local in time Fokker-Planck equations and show by means of the entropy method that as $t\to \infty$ the solution converges in $L^1$ to the unique steady state. Important special cases are the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Jukka Kemppainen , Rico Zacher

This study examines a new formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which gives a conditional derivation of the ``maximum entropy production'' (MEP) principle for flow and/or chemical reaction systems at steady state. The analysis uses…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-25 Robert K. Niven

We derive the transport equations from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation when the velocity space is spherically symmetric. The Shkarofsky's form of Fokker-Planck-Rosenbluth collision operator is employed in the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Yanpeng Wang , Jianyuan Xiao , Xianhao Rao , Pengfei Zhang , Yolbarsop Adil , Ge Zhuang

The kinetics of ordering and concurrent ordering and clustering is analyzed with an equation of motion initially developed to account for dissipative processes in quantum systems. A simplified energy eigenstructure, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-28 Ryo Yamada , Michael R. von Spakovsky , William T. Reynolds,

A nonlinear master equation is derived, reflecting properly the entropy of open quantum systems. In contrast to linear alternatives, its equilibrium solution is exactly the canonical Gibbs density matrix. The corresponding nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Roumen Tsekov

In the present effort we consider the most general non linear particle kinetics within the framework of the Fokker-Planck picture. We show that the kinetics imposes the form of the generalized entropy and subsequently we demonstrate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kaniadakis

In this paper we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation with asymptotically small parameters. It describes the diffusion of finite-size particles in the presence of a fixed distribution of obstacles in the limit of low-volume fraction.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , Helene Ranetbauer , Marie-Therese Wolfram

This paper is devoted to a fundamental solution of a nonlinear kinetic equation involving a porous medium or fast diffusion operator acting on velocities. Such a nonlinearity has interesting scaling properties, which result in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Giovanni Brigati , Guillaume Carlier , Jean Dolbeault

A Fokker-Planck type equation for interacting particles with exclusion principle is analysed. The nonlinear drift gives rise to mathematical difficulties in controlling moments of the distribution function. Assuming enough initial moments…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-21 José A. Carrillo , Philippe Laurençot , Jesús Rosado

We show through a nonlinear Fokker-Planck formalism, and confirm by molecular dynamics simulations, that the overdamped motion of interacting particles at T=0, where T is the temperature of a thermal bath connected to the system, can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-08 J. S. Andrade , G. F. T. da Silva , A. A. Moreira , F. D. Nobre , E. M. F. Curado

Statistical thermodynamics is valuable as a conceptual structure that shapes our thinking about equilibrium thermodynamic states. A cloud of unresolved questions surrounding the foundations of the theory could lead an impartial observer to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-31 O. B. Ericok , J. K. Mason

The non-equilibrium Fokker-Planck dynamics in an arbitrary force field $\vec f(\vec r)$ in dimension $N$ is revisited via the correspondence with the non-hermitian quantum mechanics in a scalar potential $V(\vec r)$ and a vector potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-22 Alain Mazzolo , Cécile Monthus

We show that under rather general assumptions on the form of the entropy function, the energy balance equation for a system in thermodynamic equilibrium is equivalent to a set of nonlinear equations of hydrodynamic type. This set of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-10-01 Giuseppe De Nittis , Antonio Moro

We present an analysis of two thermodynamic techniques for determining equilibria of self-gravitating systems. One is the Lynden-Bell entropy maximization analysis that introduced violent relaxation. Since we do not use the Stirling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams

In standard thermodynamics, internal energy is a state function, independent of process rates. We show that this structure breaks down in open quantum systems undergoing thermalization. Within Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Youngone Lee

We study the detailed out of equilibrium time evolution of a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate.We consider a nonrelativistic quantum theory for a self-interacting complex scalar field, immersed in a thermal bath, as an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel G. Barci , E. S. Fraga , Rudnei O. Ramos

The thermodynamics of Dirac fields under the influence of external electromagnetic fields is studied. For perturbations which act only for finite time, the influence of the perturbation can be described by an automorphism which can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen , Nicola Pinamonti