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Phys. Rev. E 65, 061109 (2002) [10 pages]

Exactly solvable model with an absorbing state and multiplicative colored Gaussian noise

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S. I. Denisov*
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Sumy State University, 2, Rimskiy-Korsakov Street, 40007 Sumy, Ukraine

Werner Horsthemke
Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275-0314

Received 20 February 2002; published 21 June 2002

We study the temporal evolution of a system that has an absorbing state and that is driven by colored Gaussian noise, whose amplitude depends on the system state x as |x|α. Exact, analytical expressions for the probability density functions of the system and of the absorption time are derived. We also calculate numerical characteristics of the probability density functions, namely, the fractional moments of the system and the mean absorption time, and analyze the role of the functional form of the noise correlation function.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061109
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061109
PACS:
05.40.-a, 05.10.Gg, 02.50.Ey

*Electronic address: denisov@ssu.sumy.ua

Electronic address: whorsthe@mail.smu.edu