Energy-based stochastic resetting can avoid noise-enhanced stability

Abstract

The theory of stochastic resetting asserts that restarting a stochastic process can expedite its completion. In this paper, we study the escape process of a Brownian particle in an open Hamiltonian system that suffers noise-enhanced stability. This phenomenon implies that under specific noise amplitudes the escape process is delayed. Here, we propose a protocol for stochastic resetting that can avoid the noise-enhanced stability effect. In our approach, instead of resetting the trajectories at certain time intervals, a trajectory is reset when a predefined energy threshold is reached. The trajectories that delay the escape process are the ones that lower their energy due to the stochastic fluctuations. Our resetting approach leverages this fact and avoids long transients by resetting trajectories before they reach low-energy levels. Finally, we show that the chaotic dynamics (i.e., the sensitive dependence on initial conditions) catalyzes the effectiveness of the resetting strategy.