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System Size Stochastic Resonance from the Viewpoint of the Nonequilibrium Potential

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We analyze the phenomenon of system size stochastic resonance in a simple spatially extended system by exploiting the knowledge of the nonequilibrium potential. We show that through the analysis of that potential, and particularly its "symmetry", we can obtain a clear physical interpretation of this phenomenon in a wide class of extended systems, and also analyze, for the same simple model, the effect of a general class of boundary conditions (albedo) on this kind of phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410464,
  title  = {System Size Stochastic Resonance from the Viewpoint of the Nonequilibrium Potential},
  author = {Horacio S. Wio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410464},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett