Allman, MichaelBetz, VolkerHairer, Martin2024-09-172024-09-172024-09-112011-09-0110.1016/j.spa.2011.05.007https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/241183WOS:000294196700005We investigate the behaviour of a chain of interacting Brownian particles with one end fixed and the other end moving away at slow speed epsilon > 0, in the limit of small noise. The interaction between particles is through a pairwise potential U with finite range b > 0. We consider both overdamped and underdamped dynamics. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.enFORCE SPECTROSCOPYADHESIONInteracting Brownian particlesPitchfork bifurcationStochastic differential equationsSingular perturbationScience & TechnologyPhysical Sciencestext::journal::journal article