Generalized Fokker-Planck equations and effective thermodynamics
Abstract
We introduce a new class of Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical framework. These equations describe a gas of Langevin particles in interaction. The free energy can take various forms which can account for anomalous diffusion, quantum statistics, lattice models... When the potential of interaction is long-ranged, these equations display a rich structure associated with canonical phase transitions and blow-up phenomena. In the limit of short-range interactions, they reduce to Cahn-Hilliard equations.
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