Conundrum of weak noise limit for diffusion in a tilted periodic potential

Abstract

The weak noise limit of dissipative dynamical systems is often the most fascinating one. In such a case fluctuations can interact with a rich complexity frequently hidden in deterministic systems to give rise of completely new phenomena that are absent for both noiseless and strong fluctuations regimes. Unfortunately, this limit is also notoriously hard to approach analytically or numerically. We reinvestigate in this context the paradigmatic model of nonequlibrium statistical physics consisting of inertial Brownian particle diffusing in a tilted periodic potential by exploiting the state of the art computer simulations of unprecedented time scale. In contrast to the previous results on this long standing problem we draw an inference that in the parameter regime for which the particle velocity is bistable the lifetime of ballistic diffusion diverges to infinity when thermal noise intensity tends to zero, i.e. an everlasting ballistic diffusion emerges. As a consequence the diffusion coefficient does not reach its stationary constant value.

arXiv commentin press in Phys. Rev. E

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