THEORY FOR RELAXATION AT A SUBCRITICAL PITCHFORK BIFURCATION

被引:20
作者
COLET, P
DEPASQUALE, F
CACERES, MO
SANMIGUEL, M
机构
[1] Departament de Fiiaasica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07071, Palma de Mallorca
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1990年 / 41卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.41.1901
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A theory is presented for the transient process of decay from the state of marginal stability occurring in a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation. We introduce an approximation for the stochastic paths that allows the calculation of a generating function for the statistics of the escape time. The time-dependent moments and transient fluctuations are calculated from the distribution of passage times by a scaling transformation that is associated with initial non-Gaussian statistics. Our results are in agreement with numerical simulations reported also here. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:1901 / 1911
页数:11
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