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We consider classical solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on a bounded domain $\mathcal O \subset~\mathbb{R}^d$ in position, and we obtain a probabilistic representation of the solutions using the Langevin diffusion process with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Tony Lelièvre , Mouad Ramil , Julien Reygner

Diffusion in nonhomogeneous media is described by a dynamical process driven by a general Levy noise and subordinated to a random time; the subordinator depends on the position. This problem is approximated by a multiplicative process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

In stochastic thermodynamics, the entropy production of a thermodynamic system is defined by the irreversibility measured by the logarithm of the ratio of the path probabilities in the forward and reverse processes. We derive the relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

Diffusion theory establishes a fundamental connection between stochastic differential equations and partial differential equations. The solution of a partial differential equation known as the Fokker-Planck equation describes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Carlos Escudero , Helder Rojas

We derive a universal thermodynamic bound constraining directional transport in both discrete and continuous nonequilibrium systems. For continuous-time Markov jump processes and overdamped diffusions governed by Fokker--Planck equations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 Mesfin Taye

We introduce and analyze a novel class of inverse problems for stochastic dynamics: Given the ergodic invariant measure of a stochastic process governed by a nonlinear stochastic ordinary or partial differential equation (SODE or SPDE), we…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongyu Liu , Zhihui Liu

Nonlinear diffusion $\partial_t \rho = \Delta(\Phi(\rho))$ is considered for a class of nonlinearities $\Phi$. It is shown that for suitable choices of $\Phi$, an associated Lyapunov functional can be interpreted as thermodynamics entropy.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nicolas Dirr , Marios Stamatakis , Johannes Zimmer

We consider a particle living in $\mathbb{R}_+$, whose velocity is a positive recurrent diffusion with heavy-tailed invariant distribution when the particle lives in $(0,\infty)$. When it hits the boundary $x=0$, the particle restarts with…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Loïc Béthencourt

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation which is a key ingredient in many models in physics. This paper aims to obtain a quantum counterpart of Fokker-Planck dynamics, as a means to describing quantum Fokker-Planck…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Louis Labuschagne , W. Adam Majewski

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We propose a method to analyze the dynamics of systems exhibiting slow relaxation which is based on mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The method allows us to obtain kinetic equations of the Fokker-Planck type for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Perez-Madrid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi

Fluctuation theorems are key to understanding both fundamental and applied aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems. We study the non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation theorem for the diffusion process of charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-06 K. S. Rodríguez-Vigil , M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

The goal of this paper is to study weak solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation. We first discuss existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in an irregular context, providing a unified treatment of the available literature along with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Paolo Bonicatto , Gennaro Ciampa , Gianluca Crippa

This letter is devoted to results on intermediate asymptotics for the heat equation. We study the convergence towards a stationary solution in self-similar variables. By assuming the equality of some moments of the initial data and of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-18 Jean-Philippe Bartier , Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Miguel Escobedo

Based on the covariant underdamped and overdamped Langevin equations with Stratonovich coupling to multiplicative noises and the associated Fokker-Planck equations on Riemannian manifold, we present the first law of stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-02 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

In analogy to Brownian computers we explicitly show how to construct stochastic models, which mimic the behaviour of a general purpose computer (a Turing machine). Our models are discrete state systems obeying a Markovian master equation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 Philipp Strasberg , Javier Cerrillo , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

We study the thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant in a stochastic process. Following the Onsager theory, we consider the Langevin equation for a thermodynamic variable in a thermally isolated system. By analyzing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yuki Minami , Shin-ichi Sasa

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