Interface fluctations for the 1D stochastic Ginzburg-Landau equation with nonsymmetric reaction term (Q1806483)

The authors consider a Ginzburg-Landau equation in the interval \([-\varepsilon^{-1}, \varepsilon^{-1}]\), \(\varepsilon>0\), with Neumann boundary conditions, perturbed by an additive white noise of strength \(\sqrt\varepsilon\), and reaction term being the derivative of a function which has two equal-depth wells at \(\pm 1\) but is not symmetric. When \(\varepsilon=0\), the equation has equilibrium solutions that are increasing, and connect \(-1\) with \(+1\). The authors call them instantons, and the authors study the evolution of the solutions of the perturbed equation in the limit \(\varepsilon \to 0^+\), when the initial datum is close to an instanton. The authors prove that, for times that may be of the order of \(\varepsilon^{-1}\), the solution stays close to some instanton whose center, suitably normalized, converges to a Brownian motion plus a drift. This drift is known to be zero in the symmetric case, and, using a perturbative analysis, the authors show that if the nonsymmetric part of the reaction term is sufficiently small, it determines the sign of the drift.