Simulating rare events in dynamical processes

Cristian Giardina (1) , Jorge Kurchan (2) , Vivien Lecomte (3) , Julien Tailleur (4)

1 UNIMORE - Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia = University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2 PMMH - Physique et mécanique des milieux hétérogenes (UMR 7636)
3 LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
4 MSC - Matière et Systèmes Complexes

Untypical, rare trajectories of dynamical systems are important: they are often the paths for chemical reactions, the haven of (relative) stability of planetary systems, the rogue waves that are detected in oil platforms, the structures that are responsible for intermittency in a turbulent liquid, the active regions that allow a supercooled liquid to flow... Simulating them in an efficient, accelerated way, is in fact quite simple.

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]; Physique mathématique [math-ph]; Physique mathématique [math-ph]

Cristian Giardina, Jorge Kurchan, Vivien Lecomte, Julien Tailleur. Simulating rare events in dynamical processes. Journal of Statistical Physics, 2011, 145, pp.787. ⟨10.1007/s10955-011-0350-4⟩. ⟨hal-00604423⟩