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

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DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0507-4zbMATH Open1375.82081arXiv1507.02104OpenAlexW2104176564MaRDI QIDQ730134FDOQ730134

F. Bouchet, Julien Reygner

Publication date: 23 December 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 Eyring-Kramers formula classically provides a subexponential prefactor to this large deviation estimate. For irreversible diffusion processes, the equivalent of Arrhenius' law is given by the Freidlin-Wentzell theory. In this paper, we compute the associated prefactor and thereby generalise the Eyring-Kramers formula to irreversible diffusion processes. In our formula, the role of the potential is played by Freidlin-Wentzell's quasipotential, and a correction depending on the non-Gibbsianness of the system along the instanton is highlighted. Our analysis relies on a WKB analysis of the quasistationary distribution of the process in metastable regions, and on a probabilistic study of the process in the neighbourhood of saddle-points of the quasipotential.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02104




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