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This is a pedagogical review of the ubiquitous 1/f^\alpha noises. The sections include the representation of 1/f^\alpha noise as a superposition of many relaxation processes; a discussion of the infinitely large fluctuations in the low…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edoardo Milotti

The counterintuitive emergence of order from noise is a central phenomenon in science, ranging from pattern formation and synchronization to order-by-disorder in frustrated systems. While large-scale spatial self-organization induced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Satyam Anand , Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

We investigate the capability of dynamical decoupling techniques to reduce decoherence from a realistic environment generating 1/f noise. The predominance of low frequency modes in the noise profile allows for decoherence scenarios where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lara Faoro , Lorenza Viola

Self-organization through noisy interactions is ubiquitous across physics, mathematics, and machine learning, yet how long-range structure emerges from local noisy dynamics remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate three paradigmatic…

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The power spectrum of quantum dot fluorescence exhibits $1/f^\beta$ noise, related to the intermittency of these nanosystems. As in other systems exhibiting $1/f$ noise, this power spectrum is not integrable at low frequencies, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sanaz Sadegh , Eli Barkai , Diego Krapf

Neural responses are highly variable, and some portion of this variability arises from fluctuations in modulatory factors that alter their gain, such as adaptation, attention, arousal, expected or actual reward, emotion, and local metabolic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-08 Neil C. Rabinowitz , Robbe L. T. Goris , Johannes Ballé , Eero P. Simoncelli

Impurity spins randomly distributed at the surfaces and interfaces of superconducting wires are known to cause flux noise in Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, providing a mechanism for decoherence in superconducting qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 José Alberto Nava Aquino , Rogério de Sousa

Phonon decoherence determines the characteristic timescales over which coherent lattice vibrations decay, making it a crucial process for understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of crystal lattices after excitation by a pump pulse. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-04 Yiming Pan , Christoph Emeis , Stephan Jauernik , Michael Bauer , Fabio Caruso

Temporal, spectral, and sample-to-sample fluctuations in coherence properties of qubits form an outstanding challenge for the development of upscaled fault-tolerant quantum computers. A ubiquitous source for these fluctuations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Shlomi Matityahu , Alexander Shnirman , Moshe Schechter

We experimentally study the scattering of guided matter waves on an amplitude-modulated optical lattice. We observe different types of frequency-dependent dips in the asymptotic output density distribution. Their positions are compared…

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are based on a new technology that delivers distance maps by the use of a modulated light source. In this paper we first describe a set of experiments that we performed with TOF cameras. We then propose a noise…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Dragos Falie , Vasile Buzuloiu

Brownian oscillator, i.e. a micron-sized or smaller particle trapped in a thermally fluctuating environment is studied. The confining harmonic potential can move with a constant velocity. As distinct from the standard Langevin theory, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-21 Lukas Glod , Gabriela Vasziova , Jana Tothova , Vladimir Lisy

Oscillation synchronization phenomenon is widely observed in natural systems through frequency modulated signals, especially in biological neural networks. Frequency modulation is also one of most widely used technologies in engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zhiyong Chen

Interest in understanding the interplay between noise and the response of a non-linear device cuts across disciplinary boundaries. It is as relevant for unmasking the dynamics of neurons in noisy environments as it is for designing reliable…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Cameron Sobie , Arif Babul , Rogerio de Sousa

We address two basic issues in the theory of galaxy formation from fluctuations of quantum fields: 1) the nature and origin of noise and fluctuations and 2) the conditions for using a classical stochastic equation for their description. On…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu , Juan Pablo Paz , Yuhong Zhang

To verify the hypothesis about the common origin of the low frequency 1/f noise and the quantum f noise recently measured in the Josephson charge qubits, we study temperature dependence of the 1/f noise and decay of coherent oscillations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Astafiev , Yu. A. Pashkin , Y. Nakamura , T. Yamamoto , J. S. Tsai

Fluctuations exist in any material object $A$. If $A$ has non-zero temperature $T$, one speaks about thermal fluctuations. If $A$ is at very low $T$, the fluctuations are of quantum origin. Interesting effects appear if two bodies $A$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Daniel Dantchev , Nicholay Tonchev

In this study, we examine decoherence of qubits system coupled independently by using influence functional. We especially concentrated on the effect of qubit flip process. We examine the zero-dimensional qubit and one-dimensional qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-30 Toshifumi Itakura

The current noise in a classical one-dimensional charge density wave system is studied in the weak pinning regime by solving the overdamped equation of motion numerically. At low temperatures and just above the zero temperature depinning…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-06-24 Zbigniew R. Struzik , Andreas Glatz , Mai Suan Li