Analytical Approach to Noise Effects on Synchronization in a System of Coupled Excitable Elements

  • Keiji Okumura
  • Masatoshi Shiino
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6443)

Abstract

We report relationships between the effects of noise and applied constant currents on the behavior of a system of excitable elements. The analytical approach based on the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation of a mean-field model allows us to study the effects of noise without approximations only by dealing with deterministic nonlinear dynamics . We find the similarity, with respect to the occurrence of oscillations involving subcritical Hopf bifurcations, between the systems of an excitable element with applied constant currents and mean-field coupled excitable elements with noise.

Keywords

Noise induced synchronization Mean-field model Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation Nonequilibrium phase transitions Bifurcations Langevin equations Stochastic limit cycle 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Keiji Okumura
    • 1
  • Masatoshi Shiino
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Physics, Faculty of ScienceTokyo Institute of TechnologyMeguro-kuJapan

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