title: Intrawell stochastic resonance versus interwell stochastic resonance in underdamped bistable systems
abstract: We show that, for periodically driven noisy underdamped bistable systems, an intrawell stochastic resonance can exist, together with the conventional interwell stochastic resonance, resulting in a double maximum in the power spectral amplitude at the forcing frequency as a function of the noise intensity. The locations of the maxima correspond to matchings of deterministic and stochastic time scales in the system. In this paper we present experimental evidence of these phenomena and a phemonological nonadiabatic description in terms of a noise-controlled nonlinear dynamic resonance.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy.
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alfonsi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gammaitoni
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santucci
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Bulsara