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L\'evy noise influences diverse non-equilibrium systems across scales, including quantum devices, active biological matter, and financial markets. While such noise is pervasive, its overall impact on activated transitions between metastable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Shenglan Yuan

The influence of the L{\'e}vy noise's properties on wavefront propagation is analyzed on examples of ensembles of locally coupled bistable oscillators and a single bistable delayed-feedback oscillator considered as a spatially-extended…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-08 Vladimir V. Semenov

The analysis of a birhythmic modified van der Pol type oscillator driven by periodic excitation and L\`evy noise shows the possible occurrence of coherence resonance and stochastic resonance. The frequency of the harmonic excitation in the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-14 R. Mbakob Yonkeu , R. Yamapi , G. Filatrella , J. Kurths

In many instances, the dynamical richness and complexity observed in natural phenomena can be related to stochastic drives influencing their temporal evolution. For example, random noise allied to spatial asymmetries may induce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 K. S. Fa , C. -L. Ho , Y. B. Matos , M. G. E da Luz

L\'evy stochastic processes, with noise distributed according to a L\'evy stable distribution, are ubiquitous in science. Focusing on the case of a particle trapped in an external harmonic potential, we address the problem of finding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-09 Marco Baldovin , David Guéry-Odelin , Emmanuel Trizac

The underdamped Langevin equation of motion of a particle, in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric periodic forcing with mean zero over a period, with nonuniform friction, is solved numerically. The particle is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-29 S. Saikia , Mangal C. Mahato

We study the coherence of transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in frictional ratchet system in the presence of external Gaussian white noise fluctuations. The analytical expressions for the particle velocity and diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raishma Krishnan , Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

We demonstrate that the Fokker-Planck equation can be generalized into a 'Fractional Fokker-Planck' equation, i.e. an equation which includes fractional space differentiations, in order to encompass the wide class of anomalous diffusions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Yanovsky , A. V. Chechkin , D. Schertzer , A. V. Tour

We study the ratchet effect of a damped relativistic particle driven by both asymmetric temporal bi-harmonic and time-periodic piecewise constant forces. This system can be formally solved for any external force, providing the ratchet…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Niurka R. Quintero , Renato Alvarez-Nodarse , José A. Cuesta

We analyze a specific class of random systems that are driven by a symmetric L\'{e}vy stable noise. In view of the L\'{e}vy noise sensitivity to the confining "potential landscape" where jumps take place (in other words, to environmental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Zaba , P. Garbaczewski , V. Stephanovich

The realization of a directed current for a quantum particle in a flashing asymmetric potential is studied. It is found that a positive current, i.e. in the direction expected for a conventional diffusive ratchet, can be attained at short…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Emil Lundh , Mats Wallin

A novel possibility of self-organized behaviour of stochastically driven oscillators is presented. It is shown that synchronization by L\'evy stable processes is significantly more efficient than that by oscillators with Gaussian…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-08-02 Sara Moradi , Johan Anderson

Non-equilibrium noise is characterized as noise realizations where external agitations disrupt the harmonic equilibrium of Brownian motion. Excitations in a particle's random walk into a so-called L\'evy flight changes the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Noah M. MacKay

We study the flashing ratchet model of a Brownian motor, which consists in cyclical switching between the Fokker-Planck equation with an asymmetric ratchet-like potential and the pure diffusion equation. We show that the motor really…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Dmitry Vorotnikov

We derive the generalized Fokker-Planck equation associated with a Langevin equation driven by arbitrary additive white noise. We apply our result to study the distribution of symmetric and asymmetric L\'{e}vy flights in an infinitely deep…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-11 S. I. Denisov , Werner Horsthemke , Peter Hänggi

On-off intermittency occurs in nonequilibrium physical systems close to bifurcation points and is characterised by an aperiodic switching between a large-amplitude "on" state and a small-amplitude "off" state. L\'evy on-off intermittency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-06 Adrian van Kan , François Pétrélis

Non-Gaussian L\'evy noises are present in many models for understanding underlining principles of physics, finance, biology and more. In this work, we consider the Fokker-Planck equation(FPE) due to one-dimensional asymmetric L\'evy motion,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Xiao Wang , Wenpeng Shang , Xiaofan Li , Jinqiao Duan , Yanghong Huang

We analyze two-dimensional (2D) random systems driven by a symmetric L\'{e}vy stable noise which, under the sole influence of external (force) potentials $\Phi (x) $, asymptotically set down at Boltzmann-type thermal equilibria. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-07 Mariusz Zaba , Piotr Garbaczewski

We consider a randomly flashing ratchet, where the potential acting can be switched to another at random. Using coupled Fokker-Planck equations, we formulate the expressions of quantities measuring dynamics and thermodynamics. Extended…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-07 Xining Xu , Yunxin Zhang

Stochastic evolution of various dynamic systems and reaction networks is commonly described in terms of noise assisted escape of an overdamped particle from a potential well, as devised by the paradigmatic Langevin equation in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-16 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak