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Stochastic Resonance

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Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments

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In this chapter, we discuss a surprising discovery made in the 1980s known as stochastic resonance. It concerns a cooperative effect seen in certain nonlinear systems in the presence of random noise. The signature of stochastic resonance is that the coherence of the system output improves with an increase of random noise, at least over some range of noise levels. The subject has been vigorously studied over the past decade. Stochastic resonance is now known to occur in numerous examples spanning a wide range of physical systems. The lion’s share of the research has focussed on systems that can be adequately described by classical physics, though some attention has been devoted to quantum mechanical realizations.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Kurt Wiesenfeld

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, D-01187, Dresden, Germany

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Wiesenfeld, K., Wellens, T., Buchleitner, A. (2002). Stochastic Resonance. In: Buchleitner, A., Hornberger, K. (eds) Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45855-7_3

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