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Title: | Thermally activated escape with potential fluctuations driven by an Berrnstein-Uhlenbeck process | Authors: | REIMANN, Peter | Issue Date: | 1995 | Source: | Physical review: E: statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 52(2). p. 1579-1600 | Abstract: | We study the mean escape time T¯ of an overdamped Brownian particle in a metastable potential that is subject to additive Gaussian white noise (thermal noise) and multiplicative Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise (potential fluctuations). We derive two very general simple conditions for the existence of ‘‘resonant activation,’’ i.e., a minimum of T¯ as a function of the correlation time τ of the potential fluctuations. In the case of small thermal and potential fluctuations, we investigate T¯(τ) for large τ by means of a kinetic model and the remaining τ regime by means of quasipotential theory. We find three different types of ‘‘resonant activation’’: a standard type, a type that typically occurs for potentials without fluctuations near the barrier and the well, and a mixed type. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/4494 | DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.52.1579 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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