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The stability of optimal transport maps with respect to perturbations of the marginals is a question of interest for several reasons, ranging from the justification of the linearized optimal transport framework to numerical analysis and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Cyril Letrouit

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 aim of the present paper is to provide necessary and sufficient conditions to maintain a stochastic coupled system, with porous media components and gradient-type noise in a prescribed set of constraints by using internal controls. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Ioana Ciotir , Dan Goreac , Ionut Munteanu

We consider a model for systemic risk comprising of a system of diffusion processes, interacting through their empirical mean. Each process is subject to a confining double-well potential with some uncertainty in the coefficients,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Alexander Alecio

The long-time behavior of the survival probability for unstable multilevel systems that follows the power-decay law is studied based on the N-level Friedrichs model, and is shown to depend on the initial population in unstable states. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manabu Miyamoto

Devising optimal interventions for constraining stochastic systems is a challenging endeavour that has to confront the interplay between randomness and nonlinearity. Existing methods for identifying the necessary dynamical adjustments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-18 Dimitra Maoutsa , Manfred Opper

Control of continuous time dynamics with multiplicative noise is a classic topic in stochastic optimal control. This work addresses the problem of designing infinite horizon optimal controls with stability guarantees for \textit{a single…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Piyush Grover

Inertial effects in fluctuations of the work to sustain a system in a nonequilibrium steady state are discussed for a dragged massive Brownian particle model using a path integral approach. We calculate the work distribution function in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-12 Tooru Taniguchi , E. G. D. Cohen

We consider a periodically-forced 1-D Langevin equation that possesses two stable periodic solutions in the absence of noise. We ask the question: is there a most likely noise-induced transition path between these periodic solutions that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Yuxin Chen , John Gemmer , Mary Silber , Alexandria Volkening

We investigate a model where strong noise in a sub-population creates a metastable state in an otherwise unstable two-population system. The induced metastable state is vortex-like, and its persistence time grows exponentially with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Matthew Parker , Alex Kamenev , Baruch Meerson

The optimal (`equilibrium') macroscopic properties of an economy with $N$ industries endowed with different technologies, $P$ commodities and one consumer are derived in the limit $N\to\infty$ with $n=N/P$ fixed using the replica method.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-02 A. De Martino , M. Marsili , I. Perez Castillo

Many systems across the sciences evolve through a combination of multiplicative growth and diffusive transport. In the presence of disorder, these systems tend to form localized structures which alternate between long periods of relative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-19 Matteo Smerlak

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

In this paper we propose a new method to detect and classify coexisting solutions in nonlinear systems. We focus on mechanical and structural systems where we usually avoid multistability for safety and reliability. We want to be sure that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-02-12 P. Brzeski , M. Lazarek , T. Kapitaniak , J. Kurths , P. Perlikowski

We study the noisy dynamics of two coupled bistable modes of a nanomechanical beam. When de-coupled, each driven mode obeys the Duffing equation of motion, with a well-defined bistable region in the frequency domain. When both modes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 David Allemeier , İsmet İnönü Kaya , M. Selim Hanay , Kamil L. Ekinci

We consider the dynamics of a periodic chain of N coupled overdamped particles under the influence of noise. Each particle is subjected to a bistable local potential, to a linear coupling with its nearest neighbours, and to an independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-16 Nils Berglund , Bastien Fernandez , Barbara Gentz

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

Stochastic motion of particles in a highly unstable potential generates a number of diverging trajectories leading to undefined statistical moments of the particle position. This makes experiments challenging and breaks down a standard…

We study the path-integral formalism in the imaginary-time to show its validity in a case with a metastable ground state. The well-known method based on the bounce solution leads to the imaginary part of the energy even for a state that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Hideaki Aoyama , Toshiyuki Harano , Hisashi Kikuchi , Masatoshi Sato , Shinya Wada

We consider the problem of learning a non-deterministic probabilistic system consistent with a given finite set of positive and negative tree samples. Consistency is defined with respect to strong simulation conformance. We propose learning…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Anvesh Komuravelli , Corina S. Pasareanu , Edmund M. Clarke