Abstract In this paper, the effect of every parameter (including $p$, $q$, $r$, $\lambda$, $\tau$) on the mean first-passage time (MFPT) is investigated in an asymmetric bistable system driven by colour-correlated noise. The expression of MFPT has been obtained by applying the steepest-descent approximation. Numerical results show that (1) the intensity of multiplicative noise p and the intensity of additive noise q play different roles in the MFPT of the system, (2) suppression appears on the curve of the MFPT with small $\lambda$ (e.g. $\lambda<0.5$) but there is a peak on the curve of the MFPT when $\lambda$ is big (e.g. $\lambda >0.5$), and (3) with different values of $r$ (e.g. $r$ = 0.1, 0.5, 1.5), the effort of $\tau$ on the MFPT is diverse.
Received: 05 June 2006
Revised: 27 July 2006
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos 10472091, 10332030 and 10502042) and the Graduate Starting Seed Fund of
Northwestern Polytechnical University (Grant No Z200655).
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Zhang Xiao-Yan(张晓燕) and Xu Wei(徐伟) Mean first-passage time of an asymmetric bistable system driven by colour-correlated noise 2007 Chinese Physics 16 928
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