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Subthreshold Stochastic Resonance: Rectangular signals can cause anomalous large gains

Statistical Mechanics 2016-08-16 v1

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to explore aspects of stochastic resonance (SR) in noisy bistable, symmetric systems driven by subthreshold periodic rectangular external signals possessing a large duty cycle of unity. Using a precise numerical solution of the Langevin equation, we carry out a detailed analysis of the behavior of the first two cumulant averages, the correlation function and its coherent and incoherent parts. We also depict the non-monotonic behavior versus the noise strength of several SR quantifiers such as the average output amplitude, i.e. the spectral amplification (SPA), the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the SR-gain. In particular, we find that with subthreshold amplitudes and for an appropriate duration of the pulses of the driving force the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR), is accompanied by SR-gains exceeding unity. This analysis thus sheds new light onto the interplay between nonlinearity and the nonlinear response which in turn yields nontrivial, unexpected SR-gains above unity.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307589,
  title  = {Subthreshold Stochastic Resonance: Rectangular signals can cause anomalous large gains},
  author = {Jesús Casado-Pascual and José Gómez-Ordóñez and Manuel Morillo and Peter Hänggi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307589},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures

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