Eur. Phys. J. B 80, 519-528 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-10573-8

Stochastic resonance in a locally excited system of bistable oscillators

¹ Departement of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
² Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Corresponding author: ^a marko.gosak@uni-mb.si

Received: 24 July 2010
Revised: 5 February 2011
Published online: 9 March 2011

Abstract

Stochastic resonance is studied in a one-dimensional array of overdamped bistable oscillators in the presence of a local subthreshold periodic perturbation. The system can be treated as an ensemble of pseudospins tending to align parallel which are driven dynamically by an external periodic magnetic field. The oscillators are subjected to a dynamic white noise as well as to a static topological disorder. The latter is quantified by the fraction of randomly added long-range connections among ensemble elements. In the low connectivity regime the system displays an optimal global stochastic resonance response if a small-world network is formed. In the mean-field regime we explain strong changes in the dynamic disorder strength provoking a maximal stochastic resonance response via the variation of fraction of long-range connections by taking into account the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition of the pseudospins. The system size analysis shows only quantitative power-law type changes on increasing number of pseudospins.