Self-organized escape of oscillator chains in nonlinear potentials

Details Self-organized escape of oscillator chains in nonlinear potentials Self-organized escape of oscillator chains in nonlinear potentials

2007-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1859v1

Phys. Rev. E 76, 041110 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041110

We present the noise free escape of a chain of linearly interacting units from a metastable state over a cubic on-site potential barrier. The underlying dynamics is conservative and purely deterministic. The mutual interplay between nonlinearity and harmonic interactions causes an initially uniform lattice state to become unstable, leading to an energy redistribution with strong localization. As a result a spontaneously emerging localized mode grows into a critical nucleus. By surpassing this transition state, the nonlinear chain manages a self-organized, deterministic barrier crossing. Most strikingly, these noise-free, collective nonlinear escape events proceed generally by far faster than transitions assisted by thermal noise when the ratio between the average energy supplied per unit in the chain and the potential barrier energy assumes small values.

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