Current statistics and depinning transition for a one-dimensional Langevin process in the weak-noise limit

Abstract

We consider a particle with a Langevin dynamics driven by a uniform non-conservative force, in a one-dimensional potential with periodic boundary conditions. We are interested in the properties of the system for atypical values of the time-integral of a generalized particle current. To study these, we bias the dynamics, at trajectory level, by a parameter conjugated to the current, within the large-deviation formalism. We investigate, in the weak-noise limit, the phase diagram spanned by the physical driving force and the parameter defining the biased process. We focus in particular on the depinning transition in this two-dimensional phase diagram. In the absence of trajectory bias, the depinning transition as a function of the force is characterized by the standard exponent $\frac{1}{2}$. We show that for any non-zero bias, the depinning transition is characterized by an inverse logarithmic behavior as a function of either the bias or the force, close to the critical lines. We also report a scaling exponent $\frac{1}{3}$ for the current when considering the depinning transition in terms of the bias, fixing the non-conservative force to its critical value in the absence of bias. Then, focusing on the time-integrated particle current, we study the thermal rounding effects in the zero-current phase when the tilted potential exhibits a local minimum. We derive in this case the Arrhenius scaling, in the small noise limit, of both the particle current and the scaled cumulant generating function. This derivation of the Arrhenius scaling relies on the determination of the left eigenvector of the biased Fokker-Planck operator, to exponential order in the low-noise limit. An effective Poissonian statistics of the integrated current emerges in this limit.

arXiv comment44 pages, 9 figures

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