https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00084-7
System size stochastic resonance in driven finite arrays of coupled bistable elements
Física Teórica, Facultad de Física,
Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado de Correos 1065, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Corresponding author: morillo@us.es
Received:
10
November
2009
Revised:
1
February
2010
Published online:
9
March
2010
The global response to weak time periodic forces of an array of noisy, coupled nonlinear systems might show a nonmonotonic dependence on the number of units in the array. This effect has been termed system size stochastic resonance by other authors. In this paper, we focus on a collective variable of a finite array of one-dimensional globally coupled bistable elements. We analyze the possible nonmonotonic dependence on the system size of its power spectral amplification and its signal-to-noise ratio.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2010