TY - JOUR A1 - Gandhimathi, V. M. A1 - Rajasekar, S. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Vibrational and stochastic resonances in two coupled overdamped anharmonic oscillators JF - Modern physics letters : A, Particles and fields, gravitation, cosmology, nuclear physics N2 - We study the overdamped version of two coupled anharmonic oscillators under the influence of both low- and high-frequency forces respectively and a Gaussian noise term added to one of the two state variables of the system. The dynamics of the system is first studied in the presence of both forces separately without noise. In the presence of only one of the forces, no resonance behaviour is observed, however, hysteresis happens there. Then the influence of the high-frequency force in the presence of a low-frequency, i.e. biharmonic forcing, is studied. Vibrational resonance is found to occur when the amplitude of the high-frequency force is varied. The resonance curve resembles a stochastic resonance-like curve. It is maximum at the value of g at which the orbit lies in one well during one half of the drive cycle of the low-frequency force and in the other for the remaining half cycle. Vibrational resonance is characterized using the response amplitude and mean residence time. We show the occurrence of stochastic resonance behaviour in the overdamped system by replacing the high-frequency force by Gaussian noise. Similarities and differences between both types of resonance are presented. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - vibrational resonance KW - low-frequency force KW - high-frequency force KW - stochastic resonance KW - noise KW - mean residence time Y1 - 2006 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2006.08.051 SN - 0375-9601 VL - 360 IS - 2 SP - 279 EP - 286 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mutothya, Nicholas Mwilu A1 - Xu, Yong A1 - Li, Yongge A1 - Metzler, Ralf T1 - Characterising stochastic motion in heterogeneous media driven by coloured non-Gaussian noise JF - Journal of physics : A, Mathematical and theoretical N2 - We study the stochastic motion of a test particle in a heterogeneous medium in terms of a position dependent diffusion coefficient mimicking measured deterministic diffusivity gradients in biological cells or the inherent heterogeneity of geophysical systems. Compared to previous studies we here investigate the effect of the interplay of anomalous diffusion effected by position dependent diffusion coefficients and coloured non-Gaussian noise. The latter is chosen to be distributed according to Tsallis' q-distribution, representing a popular example for a non-extensive statistic. We obtain the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for this generalised process and establish its non-ergodic properties as well as analyse the non-Gaussian nature of the associated displacement distribution. We consider both non-stratified and stratified environments. KW - diffusion KW - anomalous diffusion KW - non-extensive statistics KW - coloured KW - noise KW - heterogeneous diffusion process Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/abfba6 SN - 1751-8113 SN - 1751-8121 VL - 54 IS - 29 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. CY - Bristol ER -