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The rate of escape of polymers from a two-dimensionally confining potential well has been evaluated using self-avoiding as well as ideal chain representations of varying length, up to 80 beads. Long timescale Langevin trajectories were…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-27 Harri Mökkönen , Timo Ikonen , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Hannes Jónsson

The escape dynamics in a two-dimensional multiwell potential is explored. A thorough numerical investigation is conducted in several types of two-dimensional planes and also in a three-dimensional subspace of the entire four-dimensional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

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 discuss activated escape from a metastable state of a system driven by a time-periodic force. We show that the escape probabilities can be changed very strongly even by a comparatively weak force. In a broad parameter range, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. I. Dykman , B. Golding , L. I. McCann , V. N. Smelyanskiy , D. G. Luchinsky , R. Mannella , P. V. E. McClintock

It is a common phenomenon in nature and technology that a system under perturbations exits a regime of its usual dynamics. Often it is possible to define a potential function whereby a potential well can be associated with a usual or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-22 Tamás Bódai

The escape mechanism of the four hill potential is explored. A thorough numerical investigation takes place in several types of two-dimensional planes and also in a three-dimensional subspace of the entire four-dimensional phase space in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The reactive process of barrier escaping from the metastable potential well is studied together with the extension of Kramers' rate formula to the fractional case. Characteristic quantities are computed for an thimbleful of insight into the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chun-Yang Wang

We present a set of effective outflow/open boundary conditions and an associated algorithm for simulating the dynamics of multiphase flows consisting of $N$ ($N\geqslant 2$) immiscible incompressible fluids in domains involving outflows or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zhiguo Yang , Suchuan Dong

Many dynamical systems operate in a fluctuating environment. However, even in low-dimensional setups, transitions and bifurcations have not yet been fully understood. In this Letter we focus on crises, a sudden flooding of the phase space…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-03-18 Simona Olmi , Antonio Politi

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

Classical escape in 2D Hamiltonian systems with the mixed state has been studied numerically and analytically. The wide class of potentials with the mixed state is presented by polinomial potentials. In potentials, where the mixed state…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-05-16 Yu. L. Bolotin , V. A. Cherkaskiy , G. I. Ivashkevych

We examine the Melnikov criterion for a global homoclinic bifurcation and a possible transition to chaos in case of a single degree of freedom nonlinear oscillator with a symmetric double well nonlinear potential. The system was subjected…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Grzegorz Litak , Marek Borowiec , Arkadiusz Syta , Kazimierz Szabelski

We present an analytic study for subdiffusive escape of overdamped particles out of a cusp-shaped parabolic potential well which are driven by thermal, fractional Gaussian noise with a $1/\omega^{1-\alpha}$ power spectrum. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

The aim of this work is to review and also explore even further the escape properties of orbits in a dynamical system of a two-dimensional perturbed harmonic oscillator, which is a characteristic example of open Hamiltonian systems. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We study the dynamics of flexible, semiflexible, and self-avoiding polymer chains moving under a Kramers metastable potential. Due to thermal noise, the polymers, initially placed in the metastable well, can cross the potential barrier, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-05 Jaeoh Shin , Timo Ikonen , Mahendra D. Khandkar , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Wokyung Sung

Thermally-driven atmospheric escape evolves from an organized outflow (hydrodynamic escape) to escape on a molecule by molecules basis (Jeans escape) with increasing Jeans parameter, the ratio of the gravitational to thermal energy of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexey N. Volkov , Robert E. Johnson , Orenthal J. Tucker , Justin T. Erwin

We reveal the escape mechanism of orbits in a Hamiltonian system with four exit channels composed of two-dimensional perturbed harmonic oscillators. We distinguish between trapped chaotic, non-escaping regular and escaping orbits by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We examine the escape from the four hill potential by using the method of grid classification, when polar coordinates are used for expressing the initial conditions of the orbits. In particular, we investigate how the energy of the orbits…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-23 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Wei Chen , Christof Jung

We analyze the nonlinear Helmholtz oscillator in the presence of fractional damping, a characteristic feature in several physical situations. In our specific scenario, as well as in the non-fractional case, for large enough excitation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-05-09 Mattia Coccolo , Jesús M. Seoane , Stefano Lenci , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Alexander Geiseler , Peter Hänggi , Gerhard Schmid