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Experiments on Critical Phenomena in a Noisy Exit Problem

D. G. Luchinsky, R. S. Maier, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, D. L. Stein

physics.data-anarXiv:physics/9707002

Abstract

We consider noise-driven exit from a domain of attraction in a two-dimensional bistable system lacking detailed balance. Through analog and digital stochastic simulations, we find a theoretically predicted bifurcation of the most probable exit path as the parameters of the system are changed, and a corresponding nonanalyticity of the activation energy. We also investigate the extent to which the bifurcation is related to the local breaking of time-reversal invariance.

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