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The dynamics of transient patterns formed by front propagation in extended nonequilibrium systems is considered. Under certain circumstances, the state left behind a front propagating into an unstable homogeneous state can be an unstable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Montagne , A. Amengual , E. Hernandez-Garcia , M. San Miguel

The problems of escape from metastable state in randomly flipping potential and of diffusion in fast fluctuating periodic potentials are considered. For the overdamped Brownian particle moving in a piecewise linear dichotomously fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Nikolay V. Agudov

The empirical speed of travelling reaction-diffusion fronts fluctuates due to the intrinsic shot noise of the reactions and diffusion. Here we study the long-time front speed fluctuations of a stochastic Huxley-Zel'dovich front. It involves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson , Pavel V. Sasorov

The interface between an unstable state and a stable state usually develops a single confined front travelling with constant velocity into the unstable state. Recently, the splitting of such an interface into {\em two} fronts propagating…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 F. J. Elmer , J. -P. Eckmann , G. Hartsleben

We describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

We study the asymptotic and pre-asymptotic diffusive properties of Brownian particles in channels whose section varies periodically in space. The effective diffusion coefficient $D_{\mathrm{eff}}$ is numerically determined by the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-11 Giuseppe Forte , Fabio Cecconi , Angelo Vulpiani

A particle with internal unobserved states diffusing in a force field will generally display effective advection-diffusion. The drift velocity is proportional to the mobility averaged over the internal states, or effective mobility, while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Erik Aurell , Stefano Bo

The dynamics of transient patterns formed by front propagation in extended nonequilibrium systems is considered. Under certain circumstances, the state left behind a front propagating into an unstable homogeneous state can be an unstable…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Montagne , A. Amengual , E. Hernandez-Garcia , M. San Miguel

We investigate front propagation in a reacting particle system in which particles perform scale-free random walks known as Levy flights. The system is described by a fractional generalization of a reaction-diffusion equation. We focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Brockmann , L. Hufnagel

We introduce non-trivial contributions to diffusion constant in generic many-body systems arising from quadratic fluctuations of ballistically propagating, i.e. convective, modes. Our result is obtained by expanding the current operator in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marko Medenjak , Jacopo De Nardis , Takato Yoshimura

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties of pushed fronts for the periodic reaction-diffusion-equation with general monostable nonlinearities. Especially, we prove the exponential behavior of pushed fronts when they are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Hongjun Guo

The problem of a particle diffusion in a fluctuating scalar field is studied. In contrast to most studies of advection diffusion in random fields we analyze the case where the particle position is also coupled to the dynamics of the field.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 David S. Dean , V. Demery

The problem of flame propagation is studied as an example of unstable fronts that wrinkle on many scales is studied. The analytic tool of pole expansion in the complex plane is emloyed to address the interaction of the unstable growth…

adap-org · Physics 2011-08-19 Zeev Olami , Barak Galanti , Oleg Kupervasser , Itamar Procaccia

The friction coefficient of a particle can depend on its position as it does when the particle is near a wall. We formulate the dynamics of particles with such state-dependent friction coefficients in terms of a general Langevin equation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. W. C. Lau , T. C. Lubensky

From a simple model for the driven motion of a planar interface under the influence of a diffusion field we derive a damped nonlinear oscillator equation for the interface position. Inside an unstable regime, where the damping term is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of an active particle moving at a constant speed under the influence of a fluctuating torque. In our model the angular velocity is generated by a constant torque and random fluctuations described as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Joerg Noetel , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We consider Langevin equation with dichotomously fluctuating diffusivity, where the diffusion coefficient changes dichotomously in time, in order to study fluctuations of time-averaged observables in temporary heterogeneous diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

The derivation of a Moving Boundary Approximation or of the response of a coherent structure like a front, vortex or pulse to external forces and noise, is generally valid under two conditions: the existence of a separation of time scales…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos