Abstract The nonequilibrium phase transition and the symmetry revival induced by time delay in a bistable system are investigated. The stationary probability distribution function (SPDF) of the bistable system with time delay and correlated noises are calculated by an analytical method and stochastic simulation respectively. The analytical and simulative results indicate that: (1) There is a certain value of $\lambda$ ($\lambda$ denotes the strength of correlations between the multiplicative and additive noises) to make the SPDF symmetric under some time delay; however, above or below the given value, the symmetry will be broken; (2) With the monotonic change of $\lambda$ , the unimodal peak structure of SPDF becomes bimodal at the beginning, then it becomes unimodal again; this means that there is a reentrance phenomenon in the process; (3) There is a critical value of delay time, which makes the lower peak of SPDF equal to the higher one under the critical condition. This means that the symmetry revival phenomenon emerges.
Received: 02 March 2009
Revised: 27 March 2009
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Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10865006).
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Long Fei(龙飞), Du Lu-Chun(杜鲁春), and Mei Dong-Cheng(梅冬成) The nonequilibrium phase transition and the symmetry revival induced by time delay in an asymmetric bistable system with correlated noises 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 4738
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