Enhancement of the escape time in metastable states with colored noise

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dc.creatorFiasconaro, A.
dc.creatorValenti, D.
dc.creatorSpagnolo, B.
dc.date2003-10-27
dc.date2003-11-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:54:26Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:54:26Z
dc.descriptionWe present a study of the escape time from a metastable state in the presence of colored noise, generated by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We analyze the role of the correlated noise and of unstable initial conditions of an overdamped Brownian particle on the enhancement of the average escape time as a function of the noise intensity. We observe the noise enhanced stability (NES) effect for all the initial unstable states and for all values of the correlation time $τ_c$ investigated. We can distinguish two dynamical regimes characterized by: (a) a weak correlated noise and (b) a strong correlated noise, depending on the value of $τ_c$ with respect to the relaxation time. With increasing $τ_c$ we find : (i) a shift of the maximum of the average escape time towards higher values of noise intensity and an enhancement of the value of this maximum; (ii) a broadening of the NES region, which becomes very large in the strong colored noise regime; (iii) in this regime (b), the absence of the peculiar initial condition $x_c$ which separates the set of the initial unstable states lying into the divergency region from those which give only a nonmonotonic behavior of the average escape time.
dc.description6 pages, 3 figures, 7 panels. To appear in Modern Problems in Statistical Physics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310616
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310616
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/22543
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleEnhancement of the escape time in metastable states with colored noise
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