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Title: Scaling law for characteristic times of noise-induced crises

Journal Article · · Physical Review, A; (USA)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, (USA) Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland 20723 (USA)
  2. Laboratory for Plasma Research and Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (USA)
  3. Laboratory for Plasma Research, Institute for Physical Science Technology, and Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (USA)

We consider the influence of random noise on low-dimensional, nonlinear dynamical systems with parameters near values leading to a crisis in the absence of noise. In a crisis, one of several characteristic changes in a chaotic attractor takes place as a system parameter {ital p} passes through its crisis value {ital p}{sub {ital c}}. For each type of change, there is a characteristic temporal behavior of orbits after the crisis ({ital p}{gt}{ital p}{sub {ital c}} by convention), with a characteristic time scale {tau}. For an important class of deterministic systems, the dependence of {tau} on {ital p} is {tau}{similar to}({ital p}{minus}{ital p}{sub {ital c}}){sup {minus}{gamma}} for {ital p} slightly greater than {ital p}{sub {ital c}}. When noise is added to a system with {ital p}{lt}{ital p}{sub {ital c}}, orbits can exhibit the same sorts of characteristic temporal behavior as in the deterministic case for {ital p}{gt}{ital p}{sub {ital c}} (a noise-induced crisis). Our main result is that for systems whose characteristic times scale as above in the zero-noise limit, the characteristic time in the noisy case scales as {tau}{similar to}{sigma}{sup {minus}{gamma}}{ital g}(({ital p}{sub {ital c}}{minus}{ital p})/{sigma}), where {sigma} is the characteristic strength of the noise, {ital g}({center dot}) is a nonuniversal function depending on the system and noise, and {gamma} is the critical exponent of the corresponding deterministic crisis. A previous analysis of the noisy logistic map (F. T. Arecchi, R. Badii, and A. Politi, Phys. Lett. 103A, 3 (1984)) is shown to be consistent with our general result. Illustrative numerical examples are given for two-dimensional maps and a three-dimensional flow. In addition, the relevance of the noise scaling law to experimental situations is discussed.

OSTI ID:
5838160
Journal Information:
Physical Review, A; (USA), Vol. 43:4; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English