Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9877646 | Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We study a nonlinear response to random external stimuli in an excitable reaction-diffusion system. Numerical simulations are carried out in one dimension to investigate formation of excited domains (pulses) in response to stimuli and pair-annihilate upon collision. Our main concern is how the area of excited domains in the steady state depends on the strength of stimuli. We have found three different stimuli-response behaviors: a power law dependence for sufficiently weak stimuli, a logarithmic dependence for intermediate strength and an oscillatory behavior for strong stimuli. The power law behavior can be understood by a theoretical analysis.
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Authors
T. Ohta, T. Yoshimura,