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Many physical and chemical phenomena are governed by stochastic escape across potential barriers. The escape time depends on the structure of the noise and the shape of the potential barrier. By applying $\alpha$-stable noise from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-30 Ignacio del Amo , Peter Ditlevsen

We study the overdamped dynamics of a Brownian particle in the double-well potential under the influence of an external periodic (AC) force with zero mean. We obtain a dependence of the jump rate on the frequency of the external force. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Zolotaryuk , V. N. Ermakov , P. L. Christiansen

The spontaneous switching of a quantum particle between the wells of a double-well potential is a phenomenon of general interest to physics and chemistry. It was broadly believed that the switching rate decreases steadily with the size of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Qile Su , Rodrigo G. Cortiñas , Jayameenakshi Venkatraman , Shruti Puri

Humans face the task of balancing dynamic systems near an unstable equilibrium repeatedly throughout their lives. Much research has been aimed at understanding the mechanisms of intermittent control in the context of human balance control.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-14 Arkady Zgonnikov , Ihor Lubashevsky

We analyze the motion of an overdamped classical particle in a multidimensional periodic potential, driven by a weak external noise. We demonstrate that in steady-state, the presence of temporal correlations in the noise and spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Ghosh , S. V. Khare

We study viscoelastic subdiffusion in bistable and periodic potentials within the Generalized Langevin Equation approach. Our results justify the (ultra)slow fluctuating rate view of the corresponding bistable non-Markovian dynamics which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-11 Igor Goychuk

The exact formulae for spectra of equilibrium diffusion in a fixed bistable piecewise linear potential and in a randomly flipping monostable potential are derived. Our results are valid for arbitrary intensity of driving white Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Dubkov , V. N. Ganin , B. Spagnolo

Stochastic dynamical systems allow modelling of transitions induced by disturbances, in particular from an attracting equilibrium and crossing the stable manifold of a saddle. In the small-noise limit, the probability of such transitions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jiayao Shao , Tobias Grafke , Robert S. MacKay

We have studied the rich dynamics of a damped particle inside an external double-well potential under the influence of state-dependent time-delayed feedback. In certain regions of the parameter space, we observe multistability with the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-20 Álvaro G. López , Rahil N. Valani

Our study unveils the precise role of the underlying potential in regulating the fundamental processes of dynamic hysteresis, which manifests in numerous natural and designed systems. We identify that it is possible to induce symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Samudro Ghosh , Moupriya Das

We numerically solve the underdamped Langevin equation to obtain the trajectories of a particle in a sinusoidal potential driven by a temporally sinusoidal force in a medium with coefficient of friction periodic in space as the potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 D. Kharkongor , W. L. Reenbohn , Mangal C. Mahato

We analyze the rates of noise-induced transitions between period-two attractors. The model investigated is an underdamped oscillator parametrically driven by a field at nearly twice the oscillator eigenfrequency. The activation energy of…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-08 M. I. Dykman , C. M. Maloney , V. N. Smelyanskiy , M. Silverstein

The model of a double-well oscillator with nonlinear dissipation is studied. The self-sustained oscillations regime and the excitable one are described. The first regime consists in the coexistence of two stable limit cycles in the phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-10 Vladimir V. Semenov

We study the stochastic resonance phenomenon in the overdamped two coupled anharmonic oscillators with Gaussian noise and driven by different external periodic forces. We consider (i) sine, (ii) square, (iii) symmetric saw-tooth, (iv)…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. M. Gandhimathi , K. Murali , S. Rajasekar

We study the transition time distribution for a particle moving between two wells of a multidimensional potential in the low-noise limit of overdamped Langevin dynamics. Possible transition paths are restricted to a thin tube surrounding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergey V. Malinin , Vladimir Y. Chernyak

Many processes in chemistry, physics, and biology involve rare events in which the system escapes from a metastable state by surmounting an activation barrier. Examples range from chemical reactions, protein folding, and nucleation events…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Niels Zijlstra , Daniel Nettels , Rohit Satija , Dmitrii E. Makarov , Benjamin Schuler

The stationary and highly non-stationary resonant dynamics of the harmonically forced pendulum are described in the framework of a semi-inverse procedure combined with the Limiting Phase Trajectory concept. This procedure, implying only…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-25 Leonid I. Manevitch , Valeri V. Smirnov , Francesco Romeo

We study the noise-driven escape of active Brownian particles (ABPs) and run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) from confining potentials. In the small noise limit, we provide an exact expression for the escape rate in term of a variational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Eric Woillez , Yongfeng Zhao , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte , Julien Tailleur

We consider stochastic dynamics of a particle on a plane in presence of two noises and a confining parabolic potential - an analog of the experimentally-relevant Brownian Gyrator (BG) model. In contrast to the standard BG model, we suppose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Timothée Herbeau , Leonid Pastur , Pascal Viot , Gleb Oshanin