Kramers' law: Validity, derivations and generalisations

N Berglund - arxiv preprint arxiv:1106.5799, 2011 - arxiv.org
Kramers' law describes the mean transition time of an overdamped Brownian particle
between local minima in a potential landscape. We review different approaches that have …

Generalisation of the Eyring–Kramers transition rate formula to irreversible diffusion processes

F Bouchet, J Reygner - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2016 - Springer
In the small noise regime, the average transition time between metastable states of a
reversible diffusion process is described at the logarithmic scale by Arrhenius' law. The …

Symmetries and zero modes in sample path large deviations

T Schorlepp, T Grafke, R Grauer - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2023 - Springer
Sharp large deviation estimates for stochastic differential equations with small noise, based
on minimizing the Freidlin–Wentzell action functional under appropriate boundary …

Computing transition rates for the 1-D stochastic Ginzburg–Landau–Allen–Cahn equation for finite-amplitude noise with a rare event algorithm

J Rolland, F Bouchet, E Simonnet - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2016 - Springer
In this article we compute and analyse the transition rates and duration of reactive
trajectories of the stochastic 1-D Allen–Cahn equations for both the Freidlin–Wentzell …

Sharp estimates for metastable lifetimes in parabolic SPDEs: Kramers' law and beyond

N Berglund, B Gentz - 2013 - projecteuclid.org
We prove a Kramers-type law for metastable transition times for a class of one-dimensional
parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with bistable potential. The …

Transitions amongst synchronous solutions in the stochastic Kuramoto model

L DeVille - Nonlinearity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators with nearest-neighbour coupling
and additive white noise. We show that synchronous solutions which are stable without the …

Cutoff thermalization for Ornstein–Uhlenbeck systems with small Lévy noise in the Wasserstein distance

G Barrera, MA Högele, JC Pardo - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2021 - Springer
This article establishes cutoff thermalization (also known as the cutoff phenomenon) for a
class of generalized Ornstein–Uhlenbeck systems (X t ε (x)) t⩾ 0 with ε-small additive Lévy …

Using global invariant manifolds to understand metastability in the Burgers equation with small viscosity

M Beck, CE Wayne - SIAM review, 2011 - SIAM
The large-time behavior of solutions to the Burgers equation with small viscosity is described
using invariant manifolds. In particular, a geometric explanation is provided for a …

Quantifying noisy attractors: from heteroclinic to excitable networks

P Ashwin, C Postlethwaite - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2016 - SIAM
Attractors of dynamical systems may be networks in phase space that can be heteroclinic
(where there are dynamical connections between simple invariant sets) or excitable (where …

Metastability

A Bovier - Methods of contemporary mathematical statistical …, 1970 - Springer
Metastability is a wide-spread phenomenon in the dynamics of non-linear systems—
physical, chemical, biological or economic—subject to the action of temporal random forces …