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Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

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A control strategy is employed that modifies the stochastic escape times from one basin of attraction to another in a model of a double-gyre flow. The system studied captures the behavior of a large class of fluid flows that circulate and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-23 Christoffer R. Heckman , M. Ani Hsieh , Ira B. Schwartz

In order to test theoretical predictions, we have studied the phenomenon of stochastic resonance in an electronic experimental system driven by white non Gaussian noise. In agreement with the theoretical predictions our main findings are:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Castro , M. N. Kuperman , M. Fuentes , H. S. Wio

An explicit expression is obtained for the phase-time corresponding to tunneling of a (non-relativistic) particle through two rectangular barriers, both in the case of resonant and in the case of non-resonant tunneling. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladislav S. Olkhovsky , Erasmo Recami , A. K. Zaichenko

Nonlinear damping, the change in damping rate with the amplitude of oscillations plays an important role in many electrical, mechanical and even biological oscillators. In novel technologies such as carbon nanotubes, graphene membranes or…

First return maps of interspike intervals for biological neurons that generate repetitive bursts of impulses can display stereotyped structures (neuronal signatures). Such structures have been linked to the possibility of multicoding and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Bóris Marin , Reynaldo Daniel Pinto , Robert C Elson , Eduardo Colli

We introduce a new analysis method to deal with stationary non-Gaussian noises in gravitational wave detectors in terms of the independent component analysis. First, we consider the simplest case where the detector outputs are linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama , Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh

A randomly interacting N-species Lotka-Volterra system in the presence of a Gaussian multiplicative noise is analyzed. The investigation is focused on the role of this external noise into the statistical properties of the extinction times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-07 Alessandro Fiasconaro , Bernardo Spagnolo

Fluctuations affect nanoporous transport in complex and intricate ways, making optimization of signal-to-noise in artificial designs challenging. Here we focus on the simplest nanopore system, where non-interacting particles diffuse through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Sophie Marbach

We theoretically explore the role of mesoscopic fluctuations and noise on the spectral and temporal properties of systems of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric coupled gain-loss resonators operating near the exceptional point, where eigenvalues and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 N. Asger Mortensen , P. A. D. Gonçalves , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Demetrios N. Christodoulides , C. Tserkezis , C. Wolff

In this paper we present a framework for investigating coloured noise in reaction-diffusion systems. We start by considering a deterministic reaction-diffusion equation and show how external forcing can cause temporally correlated or…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-03 Michael F Adamer , Heather A Harrington , Eamonn A Gaffney , Thomas E Woolley

The efficiency of the future devices for quantum information processing is limited mostly by the finite decoherence rates of the qubits. Recently a substantial progress was achieved in enhancing the time, which a solid-state qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J Bergli , Y M Galperin , B L Altshuler

We extend results by Stotland and Di Ventra on the phenomenon of resistive switching aided by noise. We further the analysis of the mechanism underlying the beneficial role of noise and study the EPIR (Electrical Pulse Induced Resistance)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 G. A. Patterson , P. I. Fierens , D. F. Grosz

An experimental study of current fluctuations through a tunable transmission barrier, a quantum point contact, are reported. We measure the probability distribution function of transmitted charge with precision sufficient to extract the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gershon , Yu. Bomze , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Reznikov

We study decoherence in a qubit with the distance between the two levels affected by random flips of bistable fluctuators. For the case of a single fluctuator we evaluate explicitly an exact expression for the phase-memory decay in the echo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. M. Galperin , B. L. Altshuler , J. Bergli , D. V. Shantsev

Non-equilibrium critical phenomena generally exist in many dynamic systems, like chemical reactions and some driven-dissipative {reactive} particle systems. Here, by using computer simulation and theoretical analysis, we demonstrate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Qun-Li Lei , Hao Hu , Ran Ni

The presence of correlated noise, arising from a mixture of independent fluctuations and a common noisy input shared across the neural population, is a ubiquitous feature of neural circuits, yet its impact on collective network dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-16 Hui Wang , Chunming Zheng

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

A dynamical system driven by non-Gaussian L\'evy noises of small intensity is considered. The first exit time of solution orbits from a bounded neighborhood of an attracting equilibrium state is estimated. For a class of non-Gaussian L\'evy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-08 Zhihui Yang , Jinqiao Duan

"Noise-induced volatility" refers to a phenomenon of increased level of fluctuations in the collective dynamics of bistable units in the presence of a rapidly varying external signal, and intermediate noise levels. The archetypical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-01 Georges Harras , Claudio J. Tessone , Didier Sornette