Escape through a fluctuating energy barrier in the presence of non-Gaussian noise

摘要

In this paper we have studied how barrier crossing dynamics is affected by colored additive non-Gaussian noise if the barrier fluctuates deterministically. Our investigation indicates that resonant activation(RA) is either enhanced or it becomes robust if noise characteristic is deviated from the Gaussian behavior. We find that additive colored non Gaussian noise can induce the RA-like phenomenon. Another interesting observation is that the turnover behavior persists even in presence of barrier fluctuations at finite rate. Finally, it is observed that mean first passage time(MFPT) decreases with increase of non-Gaussian characteristic of the additive colored noise for a given noise strength and noise correlation time and ultimately reaches to a limiting value. The limiting value remains almost the same if the barrier fluctuating frequency is zero or far from the resonant condition. But near the resonant condition the mean first passage time initially decreases and then increases passing through a minimum as the non Gaussian parameter grows.