Noise enhanced stability in an unstable system

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作者
Mantegna, RN [1 ]
Spagnolo, B [1 ]
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[1] UNIV PALERMO, DIPARTIMENTO ENERGET & APPLICAZ FIS, I-90128 PALERMO, ITALY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.563
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We experimentally detect noise enhanced stability in an unstable physical system. The average escape time from a metastable, periodically driven, system is measured in the stable and unstable regimes in a noisy environment. In the unstable regime, we measure that the average escape time has a maximum for a finite value of the noise intensity. The scaling properties of the average escape time and of the variance of escape times are compared with the predictions obtained for a system in a marginal state.
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