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A new nonlinear Schroedinger equation is obtained explicitly from the fractal Brownian motion of a massive particle with a complex-valued diffusion constant. Real-valued energy (momentum) plane wave and soliton solutions are found in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carlos Castro , Jorge Mahecha , Boris Rodriguez

We study the classical motion of a particle subject to a stochastic force. We then present a perturbative schema for the associated Fokker-Planck equation where, in the limit of a vanishingly small noise source, a consistent dynamical model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Torres , J. M. A. Figueiredo

In this work, we numerically verify the Jarzynski equality and Crook fluctuation theorem for a Brownian particle diffusing in a heterogeneous thermal bath and hence having a non-Gaussian position distribution. We use the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 A. Saravanan , I. Iyyappan

The master equation for a linear open quantum system in a general environment is derived using a stochastic approach. This is an alternative derivation to that of Hu, Paz and Zhang, which was based on the direct computation of path…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Esteban Calzetta , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

Probability waves in the configuration space are associated with coherent solutions of the classical Liouville or Fokker-Planck equations. Distributions localized in the momentum space provide action waves, specified by the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grigorescu

Understanding the behaviour of a quantum system coupled to its environment is of fundamental interest in the general field of quantum technologies. It also has important repercussions on foundational problems in physics, such as the process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Sapphire Lally , Nicholas Werren , Jim Al-Khalili , Andrea Rocco

On the basis of the dynamical-quantization approach to open quantum systems, we can derive a non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett quantum master equation as well as a non-Markovian quantum Smoluchowski equation in phase space. On the one hand, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. O. Bolivar

A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

Brownian motion, as one of the most fundamental concepts in statistical physics, has everlasting interests in interdisciplinary fields in the past century. Although this motion with static potentials have been widely explored, its physics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Boxuan Han , Zeyu Rao , Ming Gong

We develop a theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle, including the effects of inertia (Kramers' problem), in spaces with curvature and torsion. This is done by invoking the recently discovered generalized equivalence principle,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kleinert , S. V. Shabanov

In this short communication we present an original way to couple the Brownian motion and the heat equation. More in general, we suggest a way for coupling the Langevin equation for a particle, which describes a single realization of its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Emiliano Cristiani

We present the Markovian quantum master equation describing rotational decoherence, friction, diffusion, and thermalization of planar, linear, and asymmetric rotors in contact with a thermal environment. It describes how an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Benjamin A. Stickler , Björn Schrinski , Klaus Hornberger

We get fractional symmetric Fokker - Planck and Einstein - Smoluchowski kinetic equations, which describe evolution of the systems influenced by stochastic forces distributed with stable probability laws. These equations generalize known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Chechkin , V. Yu. Gonchar

Structures of quantum Fokker-Planck equations are characterized with respect to the properties of complete positivity, covariance under symmetry transformations and satisfaction of equipartition, referring to recent mathematical work on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bassano Vacchini

In a companion paper we derived a unique time-reversal-invariant stochastic generalization of the Liouville equation and showed that it coincides with the evolution equation for the Husimi $Q$-function in a broad class of bosonic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Simon Friederich , Mritunjay Tyagi

We propose a gate-based quantum algorithm for the prediction step of Bayesian state estimation based on the Fokker-Planck equation on a discretized position-velocity state space. The probability density is encoded in the amplitudes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Felix Govaers

We obtain a non-Markovian quantum master equation directly from the quantization of a non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation describing the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment (e.g. a non-thermal fluid). As far as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-25 A. O. Bolivar

We show that the increments of generalized Wiener process, useful to describe non-Gaussian white noise sources, have the properties of infinitely divisible random processes. Using functional approach and the new correlation formula for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Dubkov , Bernardo Spagnol

Suppose that particles are randomly distributed in $\bR^d$, and they are subject to identical stochastic motion independently of each other. The Smoluchowski process describes fluctuations of the number of particles in an observation region…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 A. Goldenshluger , R. Jacobovic

Quantum Brownian motion in a periodic cosine potential is studied and a simple estimate of the tunneling effect is obtained in the frames of a quasi-equilibrium semiclassical approach. It is shown that the latter is applicable for heavy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Tsekov