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First-passage times in random walks have a vast number of diverse applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and finance. In general, environmental conditions for a stochastic process are not constant on the time scale of the average…

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An active environment is a reservoir containing \emph{active} materials, such as bacteria and Janus particles. Given the self-propelled motion of these materials, powered by chemical energy, an active environment has unique, nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-18 Jae Sung Lee , Hyunggyu Park

A Brownian particle moving across a porous membrane subject to an oscillating force exhibits stochastic resonance with properties which strongly depend on the geometry of the confining cavities on the two sides of the membrane. Such a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Fabio Marchesoni , Sergey E. Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We study a non Markovian three state model, subjected to an external periodic signal. This model is intended to describe an excitable systems with periodical driving. In the limit of a small amplitude of the external signal we derive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Prager , L. Schimansky-Geier

We use an effective Markovian description to study the long-time behaviour of a nonlinear second order Langevin equation with Gaussian noise. When dissipation is neglected, the energy of the system grows as with time a power-law with an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-19 Kirone Mallick

Living cells are known to generate non-Gaussian active fluctuations significantly larger than thermal fluctuations owing to various active processes. Understanding the effect of these active fluctuations on various physicochemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Govind Paneru , Jin Tae Park , Hyuk Kyu Pak

Stochastic resetting is a powerful strategy known to accelerate the first-passage time statistics of stochastic processes. While its effects on Markovian systems are well understood, a general framework for non-Markovian dynamics is still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Debasish Saha , Rati Sharma

We present a one-dimensional model for diffusion in a fluctuating lattice; that is a lattice which can be in two or more states. Transitions between the lattice states are induced by a combination of two processes: one periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge A. Revelli , Carlos. E. Budde , Horacio S. Wio

We have analyzed the phenomenon of stochastic resonance in a system driven by non Gaussian noises. We have considered both white and colored noises. In the latter case we have obtained a consistent Markovian approximation that enables us to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Fuentes , C. Tessone , H. S. Wio , R. Toral

Transient properties of different physical systems with metastable states perturbed by external white noise have been investigated. Two noise-induced phenomena, namely the noise enhanced stability and the resonant activation, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-07 B. Spagnolo , A. A. Dubkov , A. L. Pankratov , E. V. Pankratova , A. Fiasconaro , A. Ochab-Marcinek

The problems of escape from metastable state in randomly flipping potential and of diffusion in fast fluctuating periodic potentials are considered. For the overdamped Brownian particle moving in a piecewise linear dichotomously fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Nikolay V. Agudov

We discuss the statistics of first-passage times of a Brownian particle moving in a highly unstable nonlinear potential proportional to an odd power of position. We observe temperature-induced shortening of the mean first-passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Artem Ryabov , Pavel Zemanek , Radim Filip

A dynamical system driven by non-Gaussian L\'evy noises of small intensity is considered. The first exit time of solution orbits from a bounded neighborhood of an attracting equilibrium state is estimated. For a class of non-Gaussian L\'evy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-08 Zhihui Yang , Jinqiao Duan

Noise induced Brownian dynamics in underdamped medium is studied numerically to understand the firing time of excitable systems. By considering Brownian particles that move in underdamped medium, we study how the first arrival time behaves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Solomon F. Duki , Mesfin A. Taye

Modeling the dynamics of an individual active particle invariably involves an isotropic noisy self-propulsion component, in the form of run-and-tumble motion or variations around it. This nonequilibrium source of noise is neither…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-20 Étienne Fodor , Hisao Hayakawa , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

We study the effects of noise-intensity fluctuations on the stationary and dynamical properties of an overdamped Langevin model with a bistable potential and external periodical driving force. We calculated the stationary distributions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-24 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Masanori Arita

The non-Markovianity of open quantum system dynamics is often associated with the bidirectional interchange of information between the system and its environment, and it is thought to be a resource for various quantum information tasks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Arzu Kurt

We consider a leaky integrate-and-fire neuron with deterministic subthreshold dynamics and a firing threshold that evolves as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The formulation of this minimal model is motivated by the experimentally observed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-12 Wilhelm Braun , Paul C. Matthews , Rüdiger Thul

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

A standard approach to analysis of noise-induced effects in stochastic dynamics assumes a Gaussian character of the noise term describing interaction of the analyzed system with its complex surroundings. An additional assumption about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-06 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak