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Noise threads every scale of the natural world. Once dismissed as mere background hiss, it is now recognized as both a currency of information and a source of order in systems driven far from equilibrium. From nanometer-scale motor proteins…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-25 Atanu Chatterjee , Tuhin Chakrabortty , Saad Bhamla

Any ensemble of quantum particles exhibits statistical fluctuations known as spin noise. Here, we provide a description of spin noise in the language of open quantum systems. The description unifies the signatures of spin noise under both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 R. Annabestani , D. G. Cory , J. Emerson

Fluctuations and noise may alter the behavior of dynamical systems considerably. For example, oscillations may be sustained by demographic fluctuations in biological systems where a stable fixed point is found in the absence of noise. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard P. Boland , Tobias Galla , Alan J. McKane

LED degradation is usually associated with defects in the active region. Whereby the noise analysis can be a strong instrument to reveal them. The results of optical noise measurements for commercially available blue LED samples in a wide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Danylo Bohomolov , Vita Ivanova , Ulrich T. Schwarz

It has been recently shown numerically that the transition from integrability to chaos in quantum systems and the corresponding spectral fluctuations are characterized by $\frac{1}{f^{\alpha}}$ noise with $1\leq\alpha\leq 2$. The system of…

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

On-off intermittency occurs in nonequilibrium physical systems close to bifurcation points and is characterised by an aperiodic switching between a large-amplitude "on" state and a small-amplitude "off" state. L\'evy on-off intermittency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-06 Adrian van Kan , François Pétrélis

We present a derivation of the radiometer equation based on the original references and fundamental statistical concepts. We then perform numerical simulations of white noise to illustrate the radiometer equation in action. Finally, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-16 Todd R. Hunter , Robert Kimberk

In a recent paper I have introduced a package for the exact simulation of power-law noises and other colored noises (E. Milotti, Comput. Phys. Commun. {\bf 175} (2006) 212): in particular the algorithm generates $1/f^\alpha$ noises with $0…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edoardo Milotti

Exerting fluctuations is a part of our daily life: traffic noise, heartbeat, opinion poll, currency exchange rate, electrical current, chemical reactions - they all permanently fluctuate. One of the most important questions is why the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Maria K. Koleva

A new method is introduced to obtain a strong signal by the interference of weak signals in noisy channels. The method is based on the interference of 1/f noise from parallel channels. One realization of stochastic interference is the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Svozil , D. Felix , K. Ehrenberger

It is shown, with citing tunnel junction as an example, that mutual interplay of electron quantum transfers in a conducting system can be the fast mechanism for generation fundamental low-frequency flicker conductance fluctuations (1/f…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev , Yu. V. Medvedev , A. M. Grishin

An approach to the problem of 1/f voltage noise in conductors is developed based on an uncertainty relation for the Fourier-transformed signal. The quantum indeterminacy caused by non-commutativity of the observables at different times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Kirill A. Kazakov

Stochasticity (or noise) at cellular and molecular levels has been observed extensively as a universal feature for living systems. However, how living systems deal with noise while performing desirable biological functions remains a major…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-22 Qing Nie , Lingxia Qiao , Yuchi Qiu , Lei Zhang , Wei Zhao

Spatial and temporal noise power spectra of stripe patterns are investigated, using as a model a Swift-Hohenberg equation with a stochastic term. In particular, the analytical and numerical investigations show: 1) the temporal noise spectra…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Staliunas

To verify the hypothesis about the common origin of the low frequency 1/f noise and the quantum f noise recently measured in the Josephson charge qubits, we study temperature dependence of the 1/f noise and decay of coherent oscillations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Astafiev , Yu. A. Pashkin , Y. Nakamura , T. Yamamoto , J. S. Tsai

Noise-induced failures in the stabilization of an unstable orbit in the one-dimensional logistic map are considered as large fluctuations from a stable state. The properties of the large fluctuations are examined by determination and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Khovanov , N. A. Khovanova , P. V. E. McClintock

Quantum critical points are characterized by scale invariant correlations and correspondingly long ranged entanglement. As such, they present fascinating examples of quantum states of matter, the study of which has been an important theme…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-07 Emanuele G. Dalla Torre , Eugene Demler , Thierry Giamarchi , Ehud Altman

We study the probability distributions of interface roughness, sampled among successive equilibrium configurations of a single-interface model used for the description of Barkhausen noise in disordered magnets, in space dimensionalities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. L. A. de Queiroz

Noise, through its interaction with the nonlinearity of the living systems, can give rise to counter-intuitive phenomena such as stochastic resonance, noise-delayed extinction, temporal oscillations, and spatial patterns. In this paper we…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 B. Spagnolo , D. Valenti , A. Fiasconaro