Noise-induced order


Noise-induced order is a mathematical phenomenon appearing in the Matsumoto-Tsuda model of the Belosov-Zhabotinski reaction.
The notable fact about this model is that adding noise to the system causes a transition from a "chaotic" behaviour to a more "ordered" behaviour; this article was a seminal paper in the area and generated a big number of citations and gave birth to a line of research in applied mathematics and physics.
This phenomenon was later observed in the Belosov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

Mathematical background

Interpolating experimental data from the Belosouv-Zabotinsky reaction, Matsumoto and Tsuda introduced a one dimensional model, a random dynamical system with uniform additive noise, driven by the map:
where
This random dynamical system is simulated with different noise amplitudes using floating-point arithmetic and the Lyapunov exponent along the simulated orbits is computed; the Lyapunov exponent of this simulated system was found to transition from positive to negative as the noise amplitude grows.
It is worth remarking that the behavior of the floating point system and of the original system may differ, so therefore this is not a rigorous mathematical proof of the phenomenon.
A computer assisted proof of noise-induced order for the Matsumoto-Tsuda map with the parameters above was given in 2017.