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Classical metastability manifests as noise-driven switching between disjoint basins of attraction and slowing down of relaxation, quantum systems like qubits and Rydberg atoms exhibit analogous behavior through collective quantum jumps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ya-Xin Xiang , Weibin Li , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

Bistable autonomous systems can be found inmany areas of science. When the intrinsic noise intensity is large, these systems exhibits stochastic transitions from onemetastable steady state to another. In electronic bistable memories, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-14 Léopold Van Brandt , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We consider a system of reaction-diffusion equations in a bounded interval of the real line, with emphasis on the metastable dynamics, whereby the time-dependent solution approaches the steady state in an asymptotically exponentially long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Marta Strani

A recent study on the effect of colored driving noise on the escape from a metastable state derives an analytic expression of the transfer function of the leaky integrate-and-fire neuron model subject to colored noise. Here we present an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-14 Jannis Schuecker , Markus Diesmann , Moritz Helias

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

We study the dynamics of an active Brownian particle with a nonlinear friction function located in a spatial cubic potential. For strong but finite damping, the escape rate of the particle over the spatial potential barrier shows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-02 P. S. Burada , B. Lindner

The principal aim of the present work is to explore limit theorems for small random perturbations of dynamical systems with periodic impulse effects, in the limit of vanishing noise intensity. We start with a system whose time evolution is…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ashif Khan , Chetan D. Pahlajani

The escape from a given domain is one of the fundamental problems in statistical physics and the theory of stochastic processes. Here, we explore properties of the escape of an inertial particle driven by L\'evy noise from a bounded domain,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec

This paper presents a complete description of noise-induced decay of a metastable state in a wide range of noise intensity. Recurrent formulas of exact moments of decay time valid for arbitrary noise intensity have been obtained. The…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Svetlana P. Nikitenkova , Andrey L. Pankratov

We study the barrier crossing of a particle driven by white symmetric Levy noise of index $\alpha$ and intensity $DD for three different generic types of potentials: (a) a bistable potential; (b) a metastable potential; and (c) a truncated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aleksei V. Chechkin , Oleksii Yu. Sliusarenko , Ralf Metzler , Joseph Klafter

We consider a class of wave equations with constant damping and polynomial nonlinearities that are perturbed by small, multiplicative, space-time white noise. The equations are defined on a one-dimensional bounded interval with Dirichlet…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Ioannis Gasteratos , Michael Salins , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

In order to understand the impact of random influences at physical boundary on the evolution of multiscale systems, a stochastic partial differential equation model under a fast random dynamical boundary condition is investigated. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-07 Wei Wang , Jinqiao Duan

The main subject of the paper is an escape from a multi-well metastable potential on a time-scale of a formation of the quasi-equilibrium between the wells. The main attention is devoted to such ranges of friction in which an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. M. Soskin

In genetic circuits, when the mRNA lifetime is short compared to the cell cycle, proteins are produced in geometrically-distributed bursts, which greatly affects the cellular switching dynamics between different metastable phenotypic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-25 Shay Be'er , Metar Heller-Algazi , Michael Assaf

We study nonlinear wave equations perturbed by transport noise acting either on the displacement or on the velocity. Such noise models random advection and, under suitable scaling of space covariance, may generate an effective dissipative…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Chang Liu , Dejun Luo

Stochastic resetting and noise-enhanced stability are two phenomena which can affect the lifetime and relaxation of nonequilibrium states. They can be considered as measures of controlling the efficiency of the completion process when a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

Stochastic restarting is a strategy of starting anew. Incorporation of the resetting to the random walks can result in the decrease of the mean first passage time, due to the ability to limit unfavorably meandering, sub-optimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec

The zero-noise limit of differential equations with singular coefficients is investigated for the first time in the case when the noise is an $\alpha $-stable process. It is proved that extremal solutions are selected and the respective…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Franco Flandoli , Michael Högele

Stochastic dynamical systems arise as models for fluid particle motion in geophysical flows with random velocity fields. Escape probability (from a fluid domain) and mean residence time (in a fluid domain) quantify fluid transport between…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jinqiao Duan , James R. Brannan , Vincent J. Ervin

We consider the noise-induced transitions in the randomly perturbed discrete logistic map from a linearly stable periodic orbit consisting of T periodic points. The traditional large deviation theory and asymptotic analysis for small noise…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-20 Yu Cao , Ling Lin , Xiang Zhou