Issue |
EPL
Volume 93, Number 2, March 2011
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Article Number | 28001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/93/28001 | |
Published online | 03 February 2011 |
Fluctuations and stability in front propagation
1
Physics Department, Oakland University - Rochester, MI 48309, USA
2
Department of Physics, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA
3
Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA
Received:
27
September
2010
Accepted:
3
January
2011
Propagating fronts arising from bistable reaction-diffusion equations are a purely deterministic effect. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes also show front propagation which coincides with the deterministic effect in the limit of small fluctuations (usually, large populations). However, for larger fluctuations propagation can be affected. We give an example, based on the classic spruce budworm model, where the direction of wave propagation, i.e., the relative stability of two phases, can be reversed by fluctuations.
PACS: 82.40.Ck – Pattern formation in reactions with diffusion, flow and heat transfer / 87.23.Cc – Population dynamics and ecological pattern formation / 02.50.Ey – Stochastic processes
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