Anomalous behavior of the Kramers rate at bifurcations in classical field theories

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/5/052001zbMATH Open1155.70016arXiv0809.2652OpenAlexW2150201127MaRDI QIDQ3603145FDOQ3603145

Nils Berglund, Barbara Gentz

Publication date: 16 February 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a Ginzburg-Landau partial differential equation in a bounded interval, perturbed by weak spatio-temporal noise. As the interval length increases, a transition between activation regimes occurs, in which the classical Kramers rate diverges [R.S. Maier and D.L. Stein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270601 (2001)]. We determine a corrected Kramers formula at the transition point, yielding a finite, though noise-dependent prefactor, confirming a conjecture by Maier and Stein [vol. 5114 of SPIE Proceeding (2003)]. For both periodic and Neumann boundary conditions, we obtain explicit expressions of the prefactor in terms of Bessel and error functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2652

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zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landau equationrate prefactorspatio-temporal noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical field theories (70S99)

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