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The problem of diffusion in a time-dependent (and generally inhomogeneous) external field is considered on the basis of a generalized master equation with two times, introduced in [1,2]. We consider the case of the quasi Fokker-Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , G. J. F. van Heijst , O. F. Petrov , P. P. J. M. Schram

The Fokker-Planck equation for the probability $f(r,t)$ to find a random walker at position $r$ at time $t$ is derived for the case that the the probability to make jumps depends nonlinearly on $f(r,t)$. The result is a generalized form of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko , Jean Pierre Boon

We formulate a short-time expansion for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations with spatially dependent diffusion coefficients, derived from stochastic processes with Gaussian white noise, for general values of the discretization parameter…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Tom Dupont , Stefano Giordano , Fabrizio Cleri , Ralf Blossey

We have derived a fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in a general space-and- time-dependent force field from power law waiting time continuous time random walks biased by Boltzmann weights. The governing equation is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-27 B. I. Henry , T. A. M Langlands , P. Straka

A Fokker Planck equation on fractal curves is obtained, starting from Chapmann-Kolmogorov equation on fractal curves. This is done using the recently developed calculus on fractals, which allows one to write differential equations on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Seema E. Satin , Abhay Parvate , A. D. Gangal

We study a deterministic method for particle transport in tissue in selected medical applications. Generalized Fokker-Planck (GFP) theory has been developed to improve the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation in cases where scattering is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 Edgar Olbrant , Martin Frank

We present a classical, mesoscopic derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion in an expanding medium. To this end, we take a conveniently generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation as the starting point. We obtain an analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , C. Escudero

An $N$-dimensional nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is investigated here by considering the time dependence of the coefficients, where drift-controlled and source terms are present. We exhibit the exact solution based on the generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes , I. T. Pedron , E. K. Lenzi

Using simple kinematical arguments, we derive the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion processes in curved spacetimes. In the case of Brownian motion, it coincides with Eckart's relativistic heat equation (albeit in a simpler form), and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Matteo Smerlak

A direct procedure for determining the propagator associated with a quantum mechanical problem was given by the Path Integration Procedure of Feynman. The Green function, which is the Fourier Transform with respect to the time variable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Marcos Moshinsky , Emerson Sadurni , Adolfo del Campo

The temporal Fokker-Plank equation [{\it J. Stat. Phys.}, {\bf 3/4}, 527 (2003)] or propagation-dispersion equation was derived to describe diffusive processes with temporal dispersion rather than spatial dispersion as in classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-01 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

Equation of long-range particle drift and diffusion on three-dimensional physical lattice is suggested. This equation can be considered as a lattice analogof space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation for continuum. The lattice approach gives…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

We study the time behavior of the Fokker-Planck equation in Zwanzig rule (the backward-Ito rule) based on the Langevin equation of Brownian motion with an anomalous diffusion in a complex medium. The diffusion coefficient is a function in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ran Guo , Jiulin Du

We consider new connections between the problem of trend to equilibrium for the n-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation of statistical physics, and weighted Poincar\'e inequality. To this aim we consider a class of n-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 G. Furioli , A. Pulvirenti , E. Terraneo , G. Toscani

A {\em propagation-dispersion equation} is derived for the first passage distribution function of a particle moving on a substrate with time delays. The equation is obtained as the continuous limit of the {\em first visit equation}, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

We obtain exact results for fractional equations of Fokker-Planck type using evolution operator method. We employ exact forms of one-sided Levy stable distributions to generate a set of self-reproducing solutions. Explicit cases are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Gorska , K. A. Penson , D. Babusci , G. Dattoli , G. H. E. Duchamp

The method of potential solutions of Fokker-Planck equations is used to develop a transport equation for the joint probability of N stochastic variables with Lochner's generalized Dirichlet distribution (R.H. Lochner, A Generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq

The Becker-D\"oring equations are an infinite dimensional system of ordinary differntial equations describing coagulation/fragmentation processes of species of integer sizes. Formal Taylor expansions motivate that its solution should be…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Gabriel Stoltz , Pierre Terrier

We develop a general framework for response theory in diffusion processes governed by Fokker-Planck equations, based on the notion of the Dissipation Function. Using the analytically solvable Brownian oscillator model, we derive exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni , Pasquale Vozza