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We study the overdamped motion of a Brownian particle in a driven double-well system to understand various physical phenomena observed experimentally. These phenomena include hysteresis, stochastic resonance, and net unidirectional motion…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

There are two main approaches to non-equlibrium statistical mechanics: one using stochastic processes and the other using dynamical systems. To model the dynamics during inflation one usually adopts a stochastic description, which is known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 Vitaly Vanchurin

Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience to power-grids, to mention…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

We consider stochastic thermodynamics as a theory of statistical inference for experimentally observed fluctuating time-series. To that end, we introduce a general framework for quantifying the knowledge about the dynamical state of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bernhard Altaner , Jürgen Vollmer

Our recent interest is focused on establishing the necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee a long-term stable evolution of both natural and artificial systems. Two necessary conditions, called global and local boundedness, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva , L. A. Petrov

The notion of stochastic shadowing property is introduced. Relations to stochastic stability and standard shadowing are studied. Using tent map as an example it is proved that, in contrast to what happens for standard shadowing, there are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Dmitry Todorov

The developing field of stochastic thermodynamics extends concepts of macroscopic thermodynamics such as entropy production and work to the microscopic level of individual trajectories taken by a system through phase space. The scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-30 Cillian Cockrell , Ian J Ford

An Ott-Antonsen reduced $M$-population of Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators is investigated, focusing on the influence of the phase-lag parameter $\alpha$ on the collective dynamics. For oscillator populations coupled on a ring, we obtained a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-07 Bojun Li , Nariya Uchida

This paper is concerned with the long-time dynamics of the nonlinear wave equation in one-space dimension, $$ u_{tt} - \delta^2 u_{xx} +V'(u) =0 \qquad x\in [0,1] $$ where $\delta>0$ is a parameter and $V(u)$ is a potential bounded from…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Katherine A Newhall , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Multiple stable states - the coexistence of two or more distinct ecological configurations under identical environmental conditions - have attracted sustained interest in ecology, yet the field still lacks a unified framework connecting…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Jennifer Paige , Denis D. Patterson , Alan Hastings

We study the dynamical behavior of a one dimensional interface interacting with a sticky unpenetrable substrate or wall. The interface is subject to two effects going in opposite directions. Contact between the interface and the substrate…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Hubert Lacoin , Shangjie Yang

Recent work on stochastic interacting particle systems with two particle species (or single-species systems with kinematic constraints) has demonstrated the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking, long-range order and phase coexistence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Gunter M. Schütz

In this article we discuss several aspects of the stochastic dynamics of spin models. The paper has two independent parts. Firstly, we explore a few properties of the multi-point correlations and responses of generic systems evolving in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Andrea Montanari

Exploring continuous time crystals (CTCs) within the symmetric subspace of spin systems has been a subject of intensive research in recent times. Thus far, the stability of the time-crystal phase outside the symmetric subspace in such spin…

A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challenge the general belief that isolated systems necessarily reach a static equilibrium state. In particular, the fact that the piston behaves…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Crosignani , P. Di Porto , C. Conti

Theoretical studies of synchronization are usually based on models of coupled phase oscillators which, when isolated, have constant angular frequency. Stochastic discrete versions of these uniform oscillators have also appeared in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-01-30 Vladimir R. V. Assis , Mauro Copelli

Being the max-analogue of $\alpha$-stable stochastic processes, max-stable processes form one of the fundamental classes of stochastic processes. With the arrival of sufficient computational capabilities, they have become a benchmark in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-18 Marco Oesting , Kirstin Strokorb

The optimization problems defining meta-stable or stationary equilibrium are explored. The Gibbs scheme is modified aiming to describe the statistical properties of a class of non-equilibrium and metastable states. The system is assumed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-04 Alejandro Cabo , Sergio Curilef

The possibility of performing simultaneous measurements in quantum mechanics is investigated in the context of the Curie-Weiss model for a projective measurement. Concretely, we consider a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ system simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen