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We introduce a fractional Kramers equation for a particle interacting with a thermal heat bath and external non-linear force field. For the force free case the velocity damping follows the Mittag-Leffler relaxation and the diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Barkai , R. Silbey

This note provides a simple derivation of the overdamped approximation for kinetic (or underdamped) equilibrium Langevin dynamics, in cases where certain coefficients depend on the position variable. The equivalent small-mass limit of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Noé Blassel

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Scott Hottovy , Austin McDaniel , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We consider Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equations with unbounded drift terms which are only measurable in time and locally H\"older continuous in space. In particular, we extend the parametrix method to this setting and we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Francesca Anceschi , Giacomo Ascione , Daniele Castorina , Francesco Solombrino

We show that Wigner-Leggett-Caldeira equation for Wigner phase space distribution function which describes the quantum Brownian motion of a particle in a force field in a high temerature, Ohmic environment can be identified as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

Recently a new type of Kramers-Fokker-Planck Equation has been proposed [R. Friedrich et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 96}, 230601 (2006)] describing anomalous diffusion in external potentials. In the present paper the explicit cases of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Eule , R. Friedrich , F. Jenko

We study the validity of a Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for a class of wave equations in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to a state-dependent damping and perturbed by a multiplicative noise. We prove that in the small mass…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Sandra Cerrai , Guangyu Xi

We discuss here the validity of the small mass limit (the so-called Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation) on a fixed time interval for a class of semi-linear stochastic wave equations, both in the case of the presence of a constant friction…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Sandra Cerrai , Mark Freidlin , Michael Salins

In this paper we study some properties of the generalized Fokker-Planck equation induced by the time-changed fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. First of all, we exploit some sufficient conditions to show that a mild solution of such…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Giacomo Ascione , Yuliya Mishura , Enrica Pirozzi

This article is concerned with the existence of solution to the stochastic Degasperis-Procesi equation on $\mathbb{R}$ with an infinite dimensional multiplicative noise and integrable initial data. Writing the equation as a system composed…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Nikolai V. Chemetov , Fernanda Cipriano

We consider a class of stochastic damped semilinear wave equations, in the small-mass limit. It has previously been established that the solution converges to the solution of a stochastic semilinear heat equation. In this work we exhibit…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Ziyi Lei

The classical Kramers problem of the kinetic theory is solved. The Kramers problem about isothermal sliding for quantum Fermi gases is considered. Quantum gases with the velocity - dependent collision frequency are considered. Specular -…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Yu. Kvashnin , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

In a recent paper Calogero and Alcantara derived a Lorentz-invariant Fokker-Planck equation, which corresponds to the evolution of a particle distribution associated with relativistic Brownian Motion. We study the "one and one-half"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Stephen Pankavich , Nicholas Michalowski

This work is devoted to the study of the obstacle problem associated to the Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck operator with rough coefficients through a variational approach. In particular, after the introduction of a proper anisotropic Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Francesca Anceschi , Annalaura Rebucci

A covariant Fokker-Planck type equation for a simple gas and an equation for the Brownian motion are derived from a relativistic kinetic theory based on the Boltzmann equation. For the simple gas the dynamic friction four-vector and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Guillermo Chacón--Acosta , Gilberto M. Kremer

The Cauchy problem to the Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation under Grad's angular cut-off assumption is investigated. When the initial data is a small perturbation of an equilibrium state, global existence and optimal temporal decay estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Linjie Xiong , Tao Wang , Lusheng Wang

We consider the so-called spatially homogenous Kolmogorov-Vicsek model, a non-linear Fokker-Planck equation of self-driven stochastic particles with orientation interaction under the space-homogeneity. We prove the global existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Alessio Figalli , Moon-Jin Kang , Javier Morales

A Wigner-Klein-Kramers equation is proposed, which merges relativistic, quantum and thermo dynamics. The relativistic effect on quantum Brownian motion is studied via the Breit-Fermi Hamiltonian applied into a dissipative Madelung…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Roumen Tsekov

In this paper we present a direct perturbative method to solving certain Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and some small parameters in the drift coefficients. The method makes use of the connection between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Choon-Lin Ho , Yan-Min Dai

A Fokker-Planck equation approach for the treatment of non-Markovian stochastic processes is proposed. The approach is based on the introduction of fictitious trajectories sharing with the real ones their local structure and initial…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piero Olla , Luca Pignagnoli