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The ability of Gaussian noise to induce ordered states in dynamical systems is here presented in an overview of the main stochastic mechanisms able to generate spatial patterns. These mechanisms involve: (i) a deterministic local dynamics…

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Nonequilibrium systems driven by additive or multiplicative dichotomous Markov noise appear in a wide variety of physical and mathematical models. We review here some prototypical examples, with an emphasis on {\em analytically-solvable}…

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While optimal control theory offers effective strategies for minimizing energetic costs in noisy microscopic systems over finite durations, a significant opportunity lies in exploiting the temporal structure of non-equilibrium forces. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-10 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Rémi Goerlich , Yael Roichman , Hartmut Löwen

This paper is centered around the approximation of dynamical systems by means of Gaussian processes. To this end, trajectories of such systems must be collected to be used as training data. The measurements of these trajectories are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

Quantum thermodynamics can be naturally phrased as a theory of quantum state transformation and energy exchange for small-scale quantum systems undergoing thermodynamical processes, thereby making the resource theoretical approach very well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Uttam Singh , Jarosław K. Korbicz , Nicolas J. Cerf

Various approaches to stochastic processes exist, noting that key properties such as measurability and continuity are not trivially satisfied. We introduce a new theory for Gaussian processes using improper linear functionals. Using a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Niels Lundtorp Olsen

Data-driven control of nonlinear systems with rigorous guarantees is a challenging problem as it usually calls for nonconvex optimization and requires often knowledge of the true basis functions of the system dynamics. To tackle these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Tim Martin , Thomas B. Schön , Frank Allgöwer

For a wide class of stochastic athermal systems, we derive Langevin-like equations driven by non-Gaussian noise, starting from master equations and developing a new asymptotic expansion. We found an explicit condition whereby the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-10 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Takahiro Sagawa , Hisao Hayakawa

The possibility of a new type of computing, where thermal noise is the information carrier and the clock in a computer, is studied. The information channel capacity and the lower limit of energy requirement/dissipation are studied in a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laszlo B. Kish

The evaluation of the path-integral representation for stochastic processes in the weak-noise limit shows that these systems are governed by a set of equations which are those of a classical dynamics. We show that, even when the noise is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. J. B. Einchcomb , A. J. McKane

We illustrate a counter-intuitive effect of an additive stochastic force, which acts independently on each element of an ensemble of globally coupled oscillators. We show numerically and semi-analytically that a very small white noise is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-27 Pau Clusella , Antonio Politi

This contribution investigates an original stochastic approach for the emergence of stop-and-go waves in traffic flow, a collective phenomenon with significant safety and environmental implications. Using a stable nonlinear car-following…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Korbmacher , Parthib Khound , Antoine Tordeux , Frank Gronwald

In oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems, time-delay feedback can lead to the instability of uniform oscillations with respect to formation of standing waves. Here, we investigate how the presence of additive, Gaussian white noise can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Michael Stich , Amit K Chattopadhyay

A study of the conductance noise in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in Si at low temperatures (T) reveals the onset of large, non-Gaussian noise after cooling from an equilibrium state at a high T with a fixed carrier density n_s.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-31 Ping V. Lin , Xiaoyan Shi , J. Jaroszynski , Dragana Popović

We analyze the problem of directed quantum transport induced by external exponentially correlated telegraphic noise. In addition to quantum nature of the heat bath, nonlinearity of the periodic system potential brings in quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Debashis Barik , Deb Shankar Ray

This paper investigates an inverse potential problem for the stochastic heat equation driven by space-time Gaussian noise, which is spatially colored and temporally white. The objective is to determine the covariance operator of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Peijun Li , Xiangchan Zhu , Yichun Zhu

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

It has been generally recognized that stochasticity can play an important role in the information processing accomplished by reaction networks in biological cells. Most treatments of that stochasticity employ Gaussian noise even though it…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-30 Neda Bostani , David A. Kessler , Nadav M. Shnerb , Wouter-Jan Rappel , Herbert Levine

Efficiency of a Brownian particle moving along the axis of a three-dimensional asymmetric periodic channel is investigated in the presence of a symmetric unbiased force and a load. Reduction of the spatial dimensionality from two or three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bao-quan Ai , Hui-zhang Xie , Liang-gang Liu

We propose a method to obtain the equilibrium distribution for positions and velocities of a one-dimensional particle via time-averaging and Laplace transformations. We apply it to the case of a damped harmonic oscillator in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. O. Soares-Pinto , W. A. M. Morgado