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The presence of noise is the primary challenge in realizing fault-tolerant quantum computers. In this work, we introduce and experimentally validate a novel strategy to circumvent noise by exploiting the phenomenon of metastability, where a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio Sannia , Pratik Sathe , Luis Pedro García-Pintos

It is well known that the addition of noise to a multistable dynamical system can induce random transitions from one stable state to another. For low noise, the times between transitions have an exponential tail and Kramers' formula gives…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Peter Ashwin , Jennifer Creaser , Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

First-passage times in random walks have a vast number of diverse applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and finance. In general, environmental conditions for a stochastic process are not constant on the time scale of the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-13 Martin Falcke , V. Nicolai Friedhoff

In this paper we provide an analysis of a mean first passage time problem of a random walker subject to a bi-variate $\alpha$-stable L\'evy type noise from a 2-dimensional disk. For an appropriate choice of parameters the mean first passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-16 Krzysztof Szczepaniec , Bartlomiej Dybiec

We study the Escape Problem for discrete-time linear dynamical systems over compact semialgebraic sets. We establish a uniform upper bound on the number of iterations it takes for every orbit of a rational matrix to escape a compact…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Julian D'Costa , Engel Lefaucheux , Eike Neumann , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

The noise can stabilize a fluctuating or a periodically driven metastable state in such a way that the system remains in this state for a longer time than in the absence of white noise. This is the noise enhanced stability phenomenon,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernardo Spagnolo , Nikolay V. Agudov , Alexander A. Dubkov

We consider a system-reservoir model where the reservoir is modulated by an external noise. Both the internal noise of the reservoir and the external noise are stationary, Gaussian and are characterized by arbitrary decaying correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Suman Kumar Banik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

The phenomenon of an excitable system producing a pulse under external or internal stimulation may be interpreted as a stochastic escape problem. This work addresses this issue by examining the Morris-Lecar neural model driven by symmetric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yancai Liu , Rui Cai , Jinqiao Duan

One of the most important challenges in mathematical neuroscience is to properly illustrate the stochastic nature of neurons. Among different approaches, the noisy leaky integrate-and-fire and the escape rate models are probably the most…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Grégory Dumont , Jacques Henry , Carmen Oana Tarniceriu

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

We study the collective escape dynamics of a chain of coupled, weakly damped nonlinear oscillators from a metastable state over a barrier when driven by a thermal heat bath in combination with a weak, globally acting periodic perturbation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 D. Hennig , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

We have shown how the intrinsic properties of a noise process can set an upper bound for the time derivative of entropy in a nonequilibrium system. The interplay of dissipation and the properties of noise processes driving the dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bidhan Chandra Bag

Dynamical systems driven by a general L\'evy stable noise are considered. The inertia is included and the noise, represented by a generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, has a finite relaxation time. A general linear problem (the additive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-15 Tomasz Srokowski

We study the dynamics of one-dimensional active particles confined in a double-well potential, focusing on the escape properties of the system, such as the mean escape time from a well. We first consider a single-particle both in near and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

The most frequently used in physical application diffusive (based on the Fokker-Planck equation) model leans upon the assumption of small jumps of a macroscopic variable for each given realization of the stochastic process. This imposes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Shpyrko , V. V. Ryazanov

We consider the kinetics of the imperfect narrow escape problem, i.e. the time it takes for a particle diffusing in a confined medium of generic shape to reach and to be adsorbed by a small, imperfectly reactive patch embedded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-11 T. Guérin , M. Dolgushev , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez

We present the noise free escape of a chain of linearly interacting units from a metastable state over a cubic on-site potential barrier. The underlying dynamics is conservative and purely deterministic. The mutual interplay between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-10 D. Hennig , S. Fugmann , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

The current series of papers is concerned with stochastic stability of monotone dynamical systems by identifying the basic dynamical units that can survive in the presence of noise interference. In the first of the series, for the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jifa Jiang , Xi Sheng , Yi Wang

In this paper, we study the asymptotic of exit problem for controlled Markov diffusion processes with random jumps and vanishing diffusion terms, where the random jumps are introduced in order to modify the evolution of the controlled…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Getachew K. Befekadu

The escape dynamics of sticky particles from textured surfaces is poorly understood despite importance to various scientific and technological domains. In this work, we address this challenge by investigating the escape time of adsorbates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , Denis S. Grebenkov