title: Dissipative enhancement of the response of a bistable noisy oscillator to external driving.
abstract: A study of the linear response susceptibility of a noisy bistable oscillator as a function of damping is carried out using the method of moments. It is found that this dependence, counterintuitively, has a nonmonotonic character and shows a maximum when the driving frequency is comparable to the thermal interwell hopping rate. The possible mechanism responsible for the occurrence of such dissipative sensitivity enhancement is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. myahaylo@yorku.ca
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evstigneev
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pankov
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Prince