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Area of Science:

  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Statistical physics
  • Computational physics

Background:

  • Understanding transitions between stable states is crucial in various scientific fields.
  • Existing methods for identifying transition pathways can be computationally intensive.
  • Large deviation theory provides a framework for analyzing rare events in noisy systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the connection between energy optimization methods and instanton trajectories from large deviation theory.
  • To demonstrate the utility of energy optimization for finding minimal perturbations that induce state transitions.
  • To develop a practical diagnostic tool for analyzing system dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a recently developed energy optimization method.
  • Applied the method to the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation.
  • Generalized the energy optimization technique to multiple time-dependent perturbations.

Main Results:

  • The energy optimization method successfully identified minimal seeds for transitions between stable states.
  • The instanton trajectory was shown to be the solution of the energy optimization method in a specific limit.
  • Key features of the instanton were captured using a small number of discrete perturbations.

Conclusions:

  • Energy optimization provides a practical approach to identifying transition pathways.
  • The findings offer a new, computationally feasible diagnostic for analyzing system dynamics.
  • This work bridges energy-based and statistical mechanics approaches to system transitions.