SIMULATION STUDY OF NOISE-ENHANCED STABILITY AND RESONANT ACTIVATION IN A BISTABLE SYSTEM INDUCED BY TIME DELAY

The thermal activation problem of a bistable system driven by correlated noises with time delay is investigated by means of numerical simulations. The simulation results indicate: (1) For the case of the bistable system with linear delay, the phenomenon of noise enhanced stability (NES) is enforced by increasing delay time τ as the multiplicative noise intensity D is smaller, but is weakened as D is larger. (2) For the case of the bistable system with cubic delay, the NES becomes faintness as τ increases. (3) For the case of the bistable system with global delay, the NES is still restrained by increasing τ with smaller D, and in some circumstances, the activation rate as a function of τ exists a peak structure, which demonstrating the emergence of resonant activation.