Nonlinear Transport in the Stochastic Standard Map

Abstract

We study a stochastically-driven standard map. The addition of a noise term destroys the invariant manifolds that organize the phase space which allows for more widespread transport than in the noiseless case. Using appropriately defined hitting times to quantify the dynamics, we identify two qualitatively different classes of transport: linear and nonlinear. Linear transport is primarily driven by the stochasticity in the system, while nonlinear transport results from a combination of the nonlinear dynamics and stochasticity and provides a significant speed-up in transport.