Underdamped, anomalous kinetics in double-well potentials

Abstract

The noise driven motion in a bistable potential acts as the archetypal model of various physical phenomena. Here, we contrast the overdamped dynamics with the full (underdamped) dynamics. For the overdamped particle driven by a non-equilibrium, $\alpha$-stable noise the ratio of forward and backward transition rates depends only on the width of a potential barrier separating both minima. Using analytical and numerical methods, we show that in the regime of full dynamics, contrary to the overdamped case, the ratio of transition rates depends both on widths and heights of the potential barrier. The analytical formula for the ratio of transition rates is corroborated by extensive numerical simulations.

9 pages

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