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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 problem of noise-induced escape from a metastable state arises in physics, chemistry, biology, systems engineering, and other areas. The problem is well understood when the underlying dynamics of the system obey detailed balance. When…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert S. Maier , D. L. Stein

We propose generalization of escape rate from a metastable state for externally driven correlated noise processes in one dimension. In addition to the internal non-Markovian thermal fluctuations, the external correlated noise processes we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Suman Kumar Banik

A theoretical approach for characterising the influence of asymmetry of noise distribution on the escape rate of a multi-stable system is presented. This was carried out via the estimation of an action, which is defined as an exponential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 I. A. Khovanov , N. A. Khovanova

Many-body and complex systems, both classical and quantum, often exhibit slow, nonlinear relaxation toward stationary states due to the presence of metastable configurations and environmental fluctuations. Nonlinear relaxation in a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Claudio Guarcello , Alexander A. Dubkov , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

We present a study of the escape time from a metastable state in the presence of colored noise, generated by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We analyze the role of the correlated noise and of unstable initial conditions of an overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fiasconaro , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

We provide a complete solution of the problems of the probability distribution and the escape rate in Poisson-noise driven systems. It includes both the exponents and the prefactors. The analysis refers to an overdamped particle in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. I. Dykman

Many complex real world phenomena exhibit abrupt, intermittent or jumping behaviors, which are more suitable to be described by stochastic differential equations under non-Gaussian L\'evy noise. Among these complex phenomena, the most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Wei Wei , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaoli Chen

We present an analytical framework to study the escape rate from a metastable state under the influence of two external multiplicative cross-correlated noise processes. Starting from a phenomenological stationary Langevin description with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-17 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Suman Kumar Banik

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

In this manuscript we show that a noise-activated escape phenomenon occurs in closed Hamiltonian systems. Due to the energy fluctuations generated by the noise, the isopotential curves open up and the particles can eventually escape in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-17 Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesus M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuan

The phenomenon of an excitable system producing a pulse under external or internal stimulation may be interpreted as a stochastic escape problem. This work addresses this issue by examining the Morris-Lecar neural model driven by symmetric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yancai Liu , Rui Cai , Jinqiao Duan

We present a study of the escape time from a metastable state of an overdamped Brownian particle, in the presence of colored noise generated by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We analyze the role of the correlation time on the enhancement of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alessandro Fiasconaro , Bernardo Spagnolo

We study the effect of noise-enhanced stability of periodically driven metastable states in a system described by piecewise linear potential. We find that the growing of the average escape time with the intensity of the noise is depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. V. Agudov , B. Spagnolo

We explore the properties of discrete-time stochastic processes with a bounded state space, whose deterministic limit is given by a map of the unit interval. We find that, in the mesoscopic description of the system, the large jumps between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-22 César Parra-Rojas , Joseph D. Challenger , Duccio Fanelli , Alan J. McKane

The emergence of the exit events from a bounded domain containing a stable fixed point induced by non-Gaussian L\'evy fluctuations plays a pivotal role in practical physical systems. In the limit of weak noise, we develop a Hamiltonian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Yang Li , Jinqiao Duan , Xianbin Liu , Yanxia Zhang

Classical metastability manifests as noise-driven switching between disjoint basins of attraction and slowing down of relaxation, quantum systems like qubits and Rydberg atoms exhibit analogous behavior through collective quantum jumps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ya-Xin Xiang , Weibin Li , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

It is well known that the addition of noise in a multistable system can induce random transitions between stable states. The rate of transition can be characterised in terms of the noise-free system's dynamics and the added noise: for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Jennifer Creaser , Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova , Peter Ashwin

We are exploring two archetypal noise induced escape scenarios: escape from a finite interval and from the positive half-line under the action of the mixture of L\'evy and Gaussian white noises in the overdamped regime, for the random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-10 Przemysław Pogorzelec , Bartłomiej Dybiec

We study the effect of a non-Gaussian noise on interstate switching activated primarily by Gaussian noise. Even weak non-Gaussian noise can strongly change the switching rate. The effect is determined by all moments of the noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lora Billings , Mark I. Dykman , Ira B. Schwartz
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