Quantifying a resonant-activation-like phenomenon in non-Markovian systems

Krzysztof Szczepaniec and Bartłomiej Dybiec
Phys. Rev. E 89, 042138 – Published 21 April 2014

Abstract

Resonant activation is an effect of a noise-induced escape over a modulated potential barrier. The modulation of an energy landscape facilitates the escape kinetics and makes it optimal as measured by the mean first-passage time. A canonical example of resonant activation is a Brownian particle moving in a time-dependent potential under action of Gaussian white noise. Resonant activation is observed not only in typical Markovian-Gaussian systems but also in far-from-equilibrium and far-from-Markovianity regimes. We demonstrate that using an alternative to the mean first-passage time, robust measures of resonant activation, the signature of this effect can be observed in general continuous-time random walks in modulated potentials, even in situations when the mean first-passage time diverges.

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  • Received 28 January 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.042138

©2014 American Physical Society

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Krzysztof Szczepaniec* and Bartłomiej Dybiec

  • Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, and Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

  • *kszczepaniec@th.if.uj.edu.pl
  • bartek@th.if.uj.edu.pl

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Vol. 89, Iss. 4 — April 2014

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