A simple experiment produces interesting results: put sand in a box which is divided in two compartments by a short sect. Then shake the box, obtaining a gas of grains of sand: the grains can eventually jump over the sect, leaving a compartment and entering the other. You will observe that under a certain treshold in the strenght of the shaking (frequency or amplitude) the most of the grains will stay all together in the same compartment. We will describe a very simplified microscopic model consisting of two inelastic particle in a double well potential with noise, reproducing this scenario. Reducing the intensity of the noise the most stable configuration change from the one with both the wells occupied by a particle to the one with both the particles in the same well. This can be described in terms of a renormalized Arrhenius law with two typical escape times.
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