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The narrow escape problem concerns the time needed for a diffusing particle to exit a confining domain through a small hole in the boundary. While this problem is now well-understood, determining the escape time for a particle that must…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-26 Victorya Richardson , Yick Hin Ling , Sean D Lawley

We study the noise-induced escape process from chaotic attractors in nonhyperbolic systems. We provide a general mechanism of escape in the low noise limit, employing the theory of large fluctuations. Specifically, this is achieved by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Suso Kraut , Celso Grebogi

The rate of noise-induced escape from a metastable state of a periodically modulated overdamped system is found for an arbitrary modulation amplitude $A$. The instantaneous escape rate displays peaks that vary with the modulation from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Dykman , D. Ryvkine

Many-body and complex systems, both classical and quantum, often exhibit slow, nonlinear relaxation toward stationary states due to the presence of metastable configurations and environmental fluctuations. Nonlinear relaxation in a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Claudio Guarcello , Alexander A. Dubkov , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

The analysis of noise-induced escape in populations of bistable elements is challenging, because nonlinearity, coupling, and noise all play essential roles. We show that the interplay of these three factors yields three qualitatively…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-06 Hidemasa Ishii , Hiroshi Kori

A dynamical system perturbed by white noise in a neighborhood of an unstable fixed point is considered. We obtain the exit asymptotics in the limit of vanishing noise intensity. This is a refinement of a result by Kifer (1981).

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-04 Yuri Bakhtin

The goal of the paper is to analytically examine escape probabilities for dynamical systems driven by symmetric $\alpha$-stable L\'evy motions. Since escape probabilities are solutions of a type of integro-differential equations (i.e.,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Huijie Qiao , Jinqiao Duan

It is well known that the addition of noise in a multistable system can induce random transitions between stable states. The rate of transition can be characterised in terms of the noise-free system's dynamics and the added noise: for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Jennifer Creaser , Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova , Peter Ashwin

Suppose a two-dimensional dynamical system has a stable attractor that is surrounded by an unstable limit cycle. If the system is additively perturbed by white noise, the rate of escape through the limit cycle will fall off exponentially as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Maier , Daniel L. Stein

We explore the properties of discrete-time stochastic processes with a bounded state space, whose deterministic limit is given by a map of the unit interval. We find that, in the mesoscopic description of the system, the large jumps between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-22 César Parra-Rojas , Joseph D. Challenger , Duccio Fanelli , Alan J. McKane

The time-dependent barrier passage of a particle driven by the structured noise is studied in the field of a metastable potential. Quantities such as the probability of passing over the saddle point and transmission coefficient of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Chun-Yang Wang

We study the mean escape time in a market model with stochastic volatility. The process followed by the volatility is the Cox Ingersoll and Ross process which is widely used to model stock price fluctuations. The market model can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanni Bonanno , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

The effect of noise is studied in one-dimensional maps undergoing transcritical, tangent, and pitchfork bifurcations. The attractors of the noiseless map become metastable states in the presence of noise. In the weak-noise limit, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-06 Jonathan Demaeyer , Pierre Gaspard

Based on a system-reservoir model, where the system is nonlinearly coupled to a heat bath and the heat bath is modulated by an external stationary Gaussian noise, we derive the generalized Langevin equation with space dependent friction and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Debashis Barik , Suman Kumar Banik

We consider the rates of noise-induced switching between the stable states of dissipative dynamical systems with delay and also the rates of noise-induced extinction, where such systems model population dynamics. We study a class of systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-27 Ira B. Schwartz , Lora Billings , Thomas W. Carr , Mark Dykman

A new approach for the weak noise analysis of exit problems removes an intrinsic contradiction of an existing method. It applies for both the mean time and the location of the exits; novel outcomes mainly concern the exits from entire…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Dietrich Ryter

Thermally activated escape over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving is considered. By means of novel time-dependent path-integral methods we derive asymptotically exact weak-noise expressions for both the instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

We present a study of the escape time from a metastable state in the presence of colored noise, generated by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We analyze the role of the correlated noise and of unstable initial conditions of an overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fiasconaro , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

L\'evy noise influences diverse non-equilibrium systems across scales, including quantum devices, active biological matter, and financial markets. While such noise is pervasive, its overall impact on activated transitions between metastable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-25 Shenglan Yuan

We analyze the fluctuation-driven escape of particles from a metastable state under the influence of a weak periodic force. We develop an asymptotic method to solve the appropriate Fokker-Planck equation with mixed natural and absorbing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 W. Moon , N. J. Balmforth , J. S. Wettlaufer