Observation of saddle-point avoidance in noise-induced escape.

Luchinsky, D. G. and Maier, R. S. and Mannella, R. and McClintock, Peter V. E. and Stein, D. L. (1999) Observation of saddle-point avoidance in noise-induced escape. Physical review letters, 82 (9). pp. 1806-1809. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

The first measurements of an exit location distribution are reported for an overdamped nonconservative system perturbed by weak white noise, modeled both numerically and by an analog electronic circuit. In the weak-noise limit the distribution is increasingly concentrated near a saddle point of the dynamics and is increasingly well approximated by a Weibull distribution, in agreement with theoretical predictions. A physical explanation for this behavior is given, which should facilitate the computation of corrections to the limiting form.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Additional Information:
© 1999 The American Physical Society
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3100
Subjects:
?? general physics and astronomyphysics and astronomy(all)qc physics ??
ID Code:
31964
Deposited On:
08 Mar 2010 14:54
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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