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Saverio Morfu
Génération expérimentale de solitons de cut-off dans une ligne électrique non linéaire
National audience; Nous étudions le phénomène de supratransmission dans un milieu non linéaire discret, soumis, à une excitation périodique dont la fréquence appartient à la bande interdite. Nous montrons l’existence d’un seuil de tension au dessus duquel l’instabilité modulationnelle (IM) va se développer dans la ligne, valeur de seuil dépendant de la fréquence d’excitation. Si elle n’empêche pas l’apparition de l’IM par supratransmission, la dissipation présente dans la ligne est un obstacle à la génération des solitons de cut-off, obstacle que nous sommes parvenus à contourner par un choix approprié de l’amplitude de l’excitation.
Digital information receiver based on stochastic resonance
International audience; An electronic receiver based on stochastic resonance is presented to rescue subthreshold modulated digital data. In real experiment, it is shown that a complete data restoration is achieved for both uniform and Gaussian white noise.
Effet du couplage non linéaire dans un système de sine-Gordon modifié
National audience; Cette Communication porte sur une étude numérique visant à montrer les conditions d'existence du phénomène de supratransmission dans un milieu gouverné par l'équation de sine-gordon à couplage mixte: le couplage linéaire pur étant associé à un couplage non linéaire. Nous montrons également l'effet de la variation du coefficient du couplage non linéaire sur l'amplitude de seuil du signal excitateur nécessaire pour déclencher le phénomène de supratransmission dans le milieu, en maintenant constant le coefficient du couplage linéaire pur.
Experimental and numerical study of noise effects in a FitzHugh-Nagumo system driven by a biharmonic signal
Using a nonlinear circuit ruled by the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations, we experimentally investigate the combined effect of noise and a biharmonic driving of respective high and low frequency F and f. Without noise, we show that the response of the circuit to the low frequency can be maximized for a critical amplitude B of the high frequency via the effect of Vibrational Resonance (V.R.). We report that under certain conditions on the biharmonic stimulus, white noise can induce V.R. The effects of colored noise on V.R. are also discussed by considering an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. All experimental results are confirmed by numerical analysis of the system response.
A nonlinear electronic circuit mimicking the neuronal activity in presence of noise
We propose a nonlinear electronic circuit simulating the neuronal activity in a noisy environment. This electronic circuit is ruled by the set of Bonhaeffer-Van der Pol equations and is excited with a white gaussian noise, that is without external deterministic stimuli. Under these conditions, our circuits reveals the Coherence Resonance signature, that is an optimum of regularity in the system response for a given noise intensity.
Propagation failure in discrete bistable reaction-diffusion systems: Theory and experiments
International audience; Wave front propagation failure is investigated in discrete bistable reaction-diffusion systems. We present a theoretical approach including dissipative effects and leading to an analytical expression of the critical coupling beyond which front propagation can occur as a function of the nonlinearity threshold parameter. Our theoretical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations and experimental results on an equivalent electrical diffusive lattice.
Encodage d'une information sinusoidale dans un circuit neuronal et résonances induites par une perturbation
Notre étude porte sur un circuit dont la tension obéit à un système d’équations correspondant à unmodèle de neurone. Nous analysons expérimentalement et en simulation numérique comment ce circuit neuronalencode un stimuli sinusoidal en train de potentiels d’action. Nous présentons un diagramme d’encodage où apparaissentdifférentes transitions selon la fréquence du stimuli. Nous montrons ensuite qu’une perturbation hautefréquence peut améliorer la détection d’un stimuli sinusoidal via le phénomène de Résonance Vibrationnelle. Eneffet, la perturbation peut induire des résonances qui coincident avec les transitions observées dans le diagrammed’encodage.
Analog simulation of neural information propagation using an electrical FitzHugh-Nagumo lattice
International audience; A nonlinear electrical lattice modelling neural information propagation is presented. It is shown that our system is an analog simulator of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations, and hence supports pulse propagation with the appropriate properties.
Effet du bruit dans le système de sine-Gordon
National audience; Cette communication porte sur une étude numérique visant à montrer que le bruit peut permettre le déclenchement de modes Breather dans le système de sine-Gordon. Dans un premier temps, en l’absence de bruit, le phénomène de supratransmission introduit et quantifié par Geniet et Léon est vérifié : il existe une amplitude critique de l’excitation sinusoıdale au delà de laquelle le milieu transmet de l’énergie bien qu’excité en dehors de sa bande passante. Nous montrons que sous certaines conditions, le bruit peut faciliter l’apparition de ce phénomène de supratransmission et déclencher des modes Breather.
Coherence resonance in Bonhoeffer-Van der Pol circuit
International audience; A nonlinear electronic circuit simulating the neuronal activity in a noisy environment is proposed. This electronic circuit is exactly ruled by the set of Bonhoeffer-Van Der Pol equations and is excited with a Gaussian noise. Without external deterministic stimuli, it is shown that the circuit exhibits the so-called 'coherence resonance' phenomenon.
Ghost stochastic resonance in FitzHugh–Nagumo circuit
International audience; The response of a neural circuit submitted to a bi-chromatic stimulus and corrupted by noise is investigated. In the presence of noise, when the spike firing of the circuit is analysed, a frequency not present at the circuit input appears. For a given range of noise intensities, it is shown that this ghost frequency is almost exclusively present in the interspike interval distribution. This phenomenon is for the first time shown experimentally in a FitzHugh-Nagumo circuit.
Experimental and numerical enhancement of Vibrational Resonance in a neural circuit
International audience; A neural circuit exactly ruled by the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations is excited by a biharmonic signal of frequencies f and F with respective amplitudes A and B. The magnitude spectrum of the circuit response is estimated at the low frequency driving f and presents a resonant behaviour versus the amplitude B of the high frequency. For the first time, it is shown experimentally that this Vibrational Resonance effect is much more pronounced when the two frequencies are multiple. This novel enhancement is also confirmed by numerical predictions. Applications of this nonlinear effect to the detection of weak stimuli are finally discussed.
A nonlinear oscillators network devoted to image processing
A contrast enhancement and image inverting tool using a lattice of uncoupled nonlinear oscillators is proposed. We show theoretically and numerically that the gray scale picture contrast is strongly enhanced even if this one is initially very small. An image inversion can be also obtained in real time with the same Cellular Nonlinear Network (CNN) without reconfiguration of the network. A possible electronic implementation of this CNN is finally discussed.
On Some Applications of Nonlinear Differential Equations in Image Processing: Concepts and Electronic Implementation
International audience
Noise effect in a sine-Gordon Lattice
International audience; This paper is devoted to the influence of internal noise in a sine-Gordon chain exhibiting the well known nonlinear supratransmission phenomenon. It is shown that spatiotemporal noise can trigger breather modes with a given probability in a range of parameters where they do not occur without noise. A frequency analysis is carried out to quantify the degree of coherence of the emitted breather. It is shown that there exists an appropriate amount of noise which ensures the existence of breather modes with the best coherence.
Simulation d'un modèle à dérivée fractionnaire décrivant l'activité électrique des cellules béta du pancréas
National audience; Dans cette communication, nous rappelons tout d’abord les différents régimes de fonctionnement dumodèle de Pernarowski. Ce dernier permet de décrire l’activité électrique des céllules béta du pancréas. Par la suite,nous définissons le modèle à dérivées fractionnaires. En particulier, le schéma d’intégration numérique choisipour résoudre le système d’équations à dérivée fractionnaire est intégralement présenté. Notre analyse montrequ’avec ce modèle fractionnaire, l’activité électrique peut être contrôlée par l’ordre des dérivées fractionnaires ;ce qui pourraît rendre compte de certains dysfonctionnement dans la sécrétion de l’insuline par les céllules béta dupancréas.
Supratransmission dans une ligne électrique de Klein-Gordon
National audience; Nous présentons une ligne électrique dont la tension obéit aux équations de Klein-Gordon d’ordre 5afin d’en étudier les propriétés de transmission. Nous focalisons sur la transmission d’énergie en bande interdite,c’est à dire lorsque le système est excité en dehors de sa bande passante. Nous avons pu expérimentallement mettreen évidence que lorsque l’amplitude de l’excitation excède un seuil, le système génére des modes non linéaires deforte amplitude via le phénomène de supratransmission.
Vibrational Resonance in inhomogeneous and space-dependent nonlinear damped systems
International audience; The properties of nonlinear systems have attracted a considerable interest these past years since they can be used to develop bio-inspired applications ranging from signal detection to image processing. Among these nonlinear signatures is Vibrational Resonance (V.R.) which expresses the ability of a nonlinear system to take benefit of a high frequency perturbation in order to enhance its response to a weak low frequency excitation . Since its introduction in mechanical systems and electronic devices, this effect has been widely reported in various systems and for different applications. Indeed, V.R can be used to detect subthreshold signals or to enhance the percepti…
Noise effects on gap wave propagation in a nonlinear discrete LC transmission line
International audience; We report here the results of numerical investigation of noise effects on the propagation in a nonlinear waveguide modeled by a discrete electrical line. Considering a periodic signal of frequency exceeding the natural cutoff frequency of this system, we show that noise can be used to trigger soliton generation in the medium. Besides the classical stochastic resonance signature exhibited by each oscillator of the network, our simulation results reveal in particular that the signal-to-noise ratio remains almost constant in the whole network for an appropriate amount of noise. This interesting feature insures for the generated solitons a quality preserved propagation a…
Impact of perturbations on the neuron response
International audience; We propose an overview of the effects of deterministic and stochastic perturbations on the response of a neuron. Our study is based on numerical simulations and experiments with an elementary neural circuit. We use different excitations to highlight various phenomena such as Mode locking, Vibrational Resonance, Ghost Stochastic Resonance... We close the study with a lattice of coupled circuit.
Theoretical and experimental study of two discrete coupled Nagumo chains
We analyze front wave (kink and antikink) propagation and pattern formation in a system composed of two coupled discrete Nagumo chains using analytical and numerical methods. In the case of homogeneous interaction among the chains, we show the possibility of the effective control on wave propagation. In addition, physical experiments on electrical chains confirm all theoretical behaviors.
PROPAGATING INTERFACES IN A TWO-LAYER BISTABLE NEURAL NETWORK
The dynamics of propagating interfaces in a bistable neural network is investigated. We consider the network composed of two coupled 1D lattices and assume that they interact in a local spatial point (pin contact). The network unit is modeled by the FitzHugh–Nagumo-like system in a bistable oscillator mode. The interfaces describe the transition of the network units from the rest (unexcited) state to the excited state where each unit exhibits periodic sequences of excitation pulses or action potentials. We show how the localized inter-layer interaction provides an "excitatory" or "inhibitory" action to the oscillatory activity. In particular, we describe the interface propagation failure a…
Effet d’une perturbation haute fréquence sur la réponse du système de FitzHugh-Nagumo soumis à une excitation basse fréquence subliminale : simulation et expérimentation.
National audience; Dans cette communication, nous menons conjointement une étude en simulation numérique ainsi qu’une étude expérimentale de la réponse du système de FitzHugh-Nagumo soumis à une excitation bi-chromatique. Cette excitation est constituée d’un signal basse fréquence perturbé par une composante haute fréquence additive. Selon l’amplitude B de la perturbation haute fréquence, la réponse du système peut être optimisée à la basse fréquence. Un choix approprié du rapport des fréquences d’excitations peut conduire à une meilleure optimisation de la réponse du système.
Pinning of a kink in a nonlinear diffusive medium with a geometrical bifurcation: Theory and experiments
International audience; We study the dynamics of a kink propagating in a Nagumo chain presenting a geometrical bifurcation. In the case of weak couplings, we define analytically and numerically the coupling conditions leading to the pinning of the kink at the bifurcation site. Moreover, real experiments using a nonlinear electrical lattice confirm the theoretical and numerical predictions.
Noise effect in a FitzHugh-Nagumo circuit driven by a bichromatic signal
We analyze the response of a nonlinear circuit exactly ruled by the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. This circuit is submitted to a bichromatic signal including a high frequency and a low frequency. In absence of noise, we show that for an appropriate amplitude of the high frequency driving, the response of the circuit estimated at the low frequency can be optimized via the phenomenon of vibrational resonance. Next, we show that under certain conditions, noise can contribute to the effect of vibrational resonance. Colored noise is also considered. Our experimental results are confirmed by a numerical analysis.
On the correlation between phase-locking modes and Vibrational Resonance in a neuronal model
International audience; We numerically and experimentally investigate the underlying mechanism leading to multiple resonances in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model driven by a bichromatic excitation. Using a FitzHugh-Nagumo circuit, we first analyze the number of spikes triggered by the system in response to a single sinusoidal wave forcing. We build an encoding diagram where different phase-locking modes are identified according to the amplitude and frequency of the sinusoidal excitation. Next, we consider the bichromatic driving which consists in a low frequency sinusoidal wave perturbed by an additive high frequency signal. Beside the classical Vibrational Resonance phenomenon, we show in real ex…
Experimental and numerical study of noise effects in a FitzHugh–Nagumo system driven by a biharmonic signal
Abstract Using a nonlinear circuit ruled by the FitzHugh–Nagumo equations, we experimentally investigate the combined effect of noise and a biharmonic driving of respective high and low frequency F and f. Without noise, we show that the response of the circuit to the low frequency can be maximized for a critical amplitude B∗ of the high frequency via the effect of Vibrational Resonance (V.R.). We report that under certain conditions on the biharmonic stimulus, white noise can induce V.R. The effects of colored noise on V.R. are also discussed by considering an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. All experimental results are confirmed by numerical analysis of the system response.
COLORED NOISE EFFECTS ON GHOST STOCHASTIC RESONANCE
International audience; We analyze the Ghost Stochastic Resonance (GSR) effect in an electronic circuit exactly ruled by the FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) equations, both numerically and experimentally. When the circuit is excited with a bichromatic driving with two close frequencies, we show that for an appropriate noise intensity the circuit response exhibits a ghost frequency which is not present in the biharmonic input signal. In this paper, we highlight the e ects of colored noise on GSR.
Influence of a nonlinear coupling on the supratransmission effect in modified sine-Gordon and Klein–Gordon lattices
International audience; In this paper, we analyze the conditions leading to the nonlinear supratransmission phenomenon in two different models: a modified fifth order Klein–Gordon system and a modified sine-Gordon system. The modified models considered here are those with mixed coupling, the pure linear coupling being associated with a nonlinear coupling. Especially, we numerically quantify the influence of the nonlinear coupling coefficient on the threshold amplitude which triggers the nonlinear supratransmission phenomenon. Our main result shows that, in both models, when the nonlinear coupling coefficient increases, the threshold amplitude triggering the nonlinear supratransmission pheno…
Noise-enhanced propagation in a dissipative chain of triggers
International audience; We study the influence of spatiotemporal noise on the propagation of square waves in an electrical dissipative chain of triggers. By numerical simulation, we show that noise plays an active role in improving signal transmission. Using the Signal to Noise Ratio at each cell, we estimate the propagation length. It appears that there is an optimum amount of noise that maximizes this length. This specific case of stochastic resonance shows that noise enhances propagation.