Periodically stimulated sensory neurons typically exhibit a kind of “statistical phase locking”
to the stimulus: they tend to fire at a preferred phase of the stimulus cycle, but not at every …

The Burridge–Knopoff model of earthquake faults with viscous friction is equivalent to a van
der Pol–FitzHugh–Nagumo model for excitable media with elastic coupling. The lubricated …

Action potentials resulting from periodic stimulation of nerve axons occur at intervals that are
irregular at moderate stimulation frequencies. Histograms of the intervals are multimodal, as …

In spite of numerous theoretical and experimental reports of excitability in lasers with
injected signal based on the locking-unlocking transition, the response of the system to …

The dependence of four firing statistics in neuronal excitable systems is studied as a function
of noise intensity and sinusoidal forcing period. For a range of biologically relevant …

In recent years birdsong has developed into an extremely interesting problem for
researchers in several branches of the scientific community. The reason is that of the …

Under certain conditions, microhollow cathode (MHC) discharges display self-pulsing, with
relaxation oscillations in voltage (V d) and current (I d). An equivalent circuit model of the …

Pushing the limits to the nanometer level, however, has proven challenging. The only known
method for trapping fluorescent nanoparticles such as single molecules uses a time-varying …

Thermo-optical pulsing in semiconductor amplifiers is experimentally shown to correspond
to a very common excitable scenario (the van der Pol–Fitzhugh–Nagumo system). Self …

We construct a model of an excitable medium with elastic rather than the usual diffusive
coupling. We explore the dynamics of elastic excitable media, which we find to be …