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Motivated by several experimental activities to detect charge noise produced by a mesoscopic conductor with a Josephson junction as on-chip detector, the switching rate out of its zero-voltage state is studied. This process is related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Ankerhold

ESR-STM is an emerging technique which is capable of detecting the precession of a single spin. We discuss the mechanism of ESR-STM based on a direct exchange coupling between the tunneling electrons and the local precessing spin S. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. V. Balatsky , Yishay Manassen , Ran Salem

In this work we study the stochastic resonance (SR) effect in a driven dissipative Jaynes-Cummings model. The SR effect is systematically studied in the semiclassical and full quantum frameworks and in both cases we find that SRs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Qingyang Qiu , Shengdan Tao , Cunjin Liu , Shengguo Guan , Min Xie , Bixuan Fan

We investigate the Kramers escape from a potential well of a test particle driven by fractional Gaussian noise with Hurst exponent 0<H<1. From a numerical analysis we demonstrate the exponential distribution of escape times from the well…

Coherence resonance (CR) characterizes noise-induced regularity in excitable systems, yet its evaluation in quiescent biological media is often obscured by flattened energy landscapes and complex nonlinear dynamics. In this study, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yefan Wu

We demonstrate the existence of stochastic resonance (SR) in confined systems arising from entropy variations associated to the presence of irregular boundaries. When the motion of a Brownian particle is constrained to a region with uneven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , P. Hänggi

Noise and decoherence due to spurious two-level systems (TLS) located at material interfaces is a long-standing issue in solid state quantum technologies. Efforts to mitigate the effects of TLS have been hampered by a lack of surface…

We analyze the fluctuation-driven escape of particles from a metastable state under the influence of a weak periodic force. We develop an asymptotic method to solve the appropriate Fokker-Planck equation with mixed natural and absorbing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-14 W. Moon , N. J. Balmforth , J. S. Wettlaufer

The escape rate of a Brownian particle over a potential barrier is accurately described by the Kramers theory. A quantitative theory explicitly taking the activity of Brownian particles into account has been lacking due to the inherently…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Sharma , R. Wittmann , J. M. Brader

Stochastic resonance (SR), a phenomenon originally introduced in climate modeling, enhances signal detection by leveraging optimal noise levels within non-linear systems. Traditional SR techniques, mainly based on single-threshold…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Dixon Vimalajeewa , Ursula U. Muller , Brani Vidakovic

We investigate the escape rate of an overdamped, self-propelled spherical Brownian particle on a surface from a metastable potential well. Within a modeling in terms of a 1D constant speed of the particle's active dynamics we consider the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-12 Alexander Geiseler , Peter Hänggi , Gerhard Schmid

A P-spice simulation followed by an experiment with a unijunction transistor (UJT) has been carried out to investigate stochastic resonance (SR) in which the response of a nonlinear system to a weak periodic input signal is amplified by an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-01 Souvik Bose , M. S. Janaki , Sandip Sarkar , A. N. Sekar Iyengar

Intrinsic channel noise is fundamental to neural processing, yet its state-dependent nature, when constrained by strict Feller boundary conditions, is often overlooked. Here, we demonstrate that this bounded multiplicative noise is not…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Yefan Wu

It is well known that the addition of noise in a multistable system can induce random transitions between stable states. The rate of transition can be characterised in terms of the noise-free system's dynamics and the added noise: for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Jennifer Creaser , Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova , Peter Ashwin

A decrease in current with increasing voltage, often referred to as negative differential resistance (NDR), has been observed in many electronic devices and can usually be understood within a one-electron picture. However, NDR has recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Supriyo Datta

We treat analytically a model that captures several features of the phenomenon of spatially inhomogeneous reversal of an order parameter. The model is a classical Ginzburg-Landau field theory restricted to a bounded one-dimensional spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Maier , D. L. Stein

Successful detection of weak signals is a universal challenge for numerous technical and biological systems and crucially limits signal transduction and transmission. Stochastic resonance (SR) has been identified to have the potential to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Patrick Krauss , Claus Metzner , Konstantin Tziridis , Holger Schulze

We study the effects of noise-intensity fluctuations on the stationary and dynamical properties of an overdamped Langevin model with a bistable potential and external periodical driving force. We calculated the stationary distributions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-24 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Masanori Arita

By applying a staggered driving force in a prototypical discrete model with a quartic nonlinearity, we demonstrate the spontaneous formation and destruction of discrete breathers with a selected frequency due to thermal fluctuations. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-05-20 David Cubero , Jesus Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this work we theoretically investigate the stochastic resonance (SR) effect in an optomechanical membrane system subject to two weak signals (one optical field and one mechanical force). The quadratic optomechanical coupling allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Bixuan Fan , Min Xie