Langevin Dynamics with a Tilted Periodic Potential |
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Authors: | Gioia Carinci Stephan Luckhaus |
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Institution: | 1. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via G. Campi 213/b, 41125, Modena, Italy 2. University of Leipzig, Augustus Platz, 10-11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany
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Abstract: | We study a Langevin equation for a particle moving in a periodic potential in the presence of viscosity γ and subject to a further external field α. For a suitable choice of the parameters α and γ the related deterministic dynamics yields heteroclinic orbits. In such a regime, in absence of stochastic noise both confined and unbounded orbits coexist. We prove that, with the inclusion of an arbitrarly small noise only the confined orbits survive in a sub-exponential time scale. |
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