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1Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Hauke.Busch@physik.tu-darmstadt.de
Abstract:
We discuss the influence of additive, spatiotemporally correlated (i.e., colored) noise on pattern formation in a two-dimensional network of excitable systems. The signature of spatiotemporal stochastic resonance (STSR) is analyzed using cross-correlation and information theoretic measures. It is found that the STSR behavior is affected by both the spatial and temporal correlations of the noise due to an interplay with the length scales of the deterministic network. Increasing the spatiotemporal noise correlation shifts the occurrence of STSR to smaller values of the noise variance. Additionally, if the spatial correlation of the noise exceeds that of the network, the excitation patterns disappear in favor of cloudy structures, directly rendering the underlying spatial noise field.
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