Stochastic resonance in a bistable system with time-delayed feedback and non-Gaussian noise

• Published in: Physics letters. A Vol. 363; no. 3; pp. 202 - 212
• Main Authors: Wu, Dan, Zhu, Shiqun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 26.04.2007
• Subjects: 05.40.-a; 05.60.Cd; 05.45.-a
• ISSN: 0375-9601; 1873-2429
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.11.006

The phenomenon of stochastic resonance in a bistable system with time-delayed feedback driven by non-Gaussian noise is investigated. Combining the small time delay approximation, the path-integral approach and the unified colored noise approximation, a general approximate Fokker–Planck equation of a stochastic system is obtained. The effects of the parameter q indicating the departure from the Gaussian noise, the delay time τ, and the correlation time τ 0 of the non-Gaussian noise on the quasi-steady-state probability distribution function (SPD) and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are discussed. It is found that the number of peaks in SPD and the reentrant transition between one peak and two peaks and then to one peak again in the curve of SNR depends on the parameter q, the delay time τ, and the noise correlation time τ 0 .