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Least-rattling feedback from strong time-scale separation

Pavel Chvykov* and Jeremy England

  • Physics of Living Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *pchvykov@mit.edu
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Phys. Rev. E 97, 032115 – Published 15 March, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032115

Abstract

In most interacting many-body systems associated with some “emergent phenomena,” we can identify subgroups of degrees of freedom that relax on dramatically different time scales. Time-scale separation of this kind is particularly helpful in nonequilibrium systems where only the fast variables are subjected to external driving; in such a case, it may be shown through elimination of fast variables that the slow coordinates effectively experience a thermal bath of spatially varying temperature. In this paper, we investigate how such a temperature landscape arises according to how the slow variables affect the character of the driven quasisteady state reached by the fast variables. Brownian motion in the presence of spatial temperature gradients is known to lead to the accumulation of probability density in low-temperature regions. Here, we focus on the implications of attraction to low effective temperature for the long-term evolution of slow variables. After quantitatively deriving the temperature landscape for a general class of overdamped systems using a path-integral technique, we then illustrate in a simple dynamical system how the attraction to low effective temperature has a fine-tuning effect on the slow variable, selecting configurations that bring about exceptionally low force fluctuation in the fast-variable steady state. We furthermore demonstrate that a particularly strong effect of this kind can take place when the slow variable is tuned to bring about orderly, integrable motion in the fast dynamics that avoids thermalizing energy absorbed from the drive. We thus point to a potentially general feedback mechanism in multi-time-scale active systems, that leads to the exploration of slow variable space, as if in search of fine tuning for a “least-rattling” response in the fast coordinates.

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Phys. Rev. E 97, 032115– Published 15 March, 2018
  • Received 16 July 2017
  • Revised 17 January 2018
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