Eur. Phys. J. B (2016) 89: 222
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70453-3

Regular Article

Entropic stochastic resonance of a self-propelled Janus particle

¹ Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, P.R. China
² Department of Physics, Kunming University, Kunming 650214, P.R. China

^a e-mail: lcdu@ynu.edu.cn

Received: 25 July 2016
Received in final form: 4 August 2016
Published online: 10 October 2016

Abstract

Entropic stochastic resonance is investigated when a self-propelled Janus particle moves in a double-cavity container. Numerical simulation results indicate the entropic stochastic resonance can survive even if there is no symmetry breaking in any direction. This is the essential distinction between the property of a self-propelled Janus particle and that of a passive Brownian particle, for the symmetry breaking is necessary for the entropic stochastic resonance of a passive Brownian particle. With the rotational noise intensity growing at small fixed noise intensity of translational motion, the signal power amplification increases monotonically towards saturation which also can be regarded as a kind of stochastic resonance effect. Besides, the increase in the natural frequency of the periodic driving depresses the degree of the stochastic resonance, whereas the rise in its amplitude enhances and then suppresses the behavior.