STOCHASTIC RESONANCE AND COMPUTATION

Stochastic resonance (SR) occurs in bistable nonlinear systems subject to noise, as the entrainment of their output by a weak periodic modul ation added to the input. Electronic computation involves switching of memory elements between two slates that correspond to 1 and 0, respec tively, The possibility of switching errors due to SR in memory elemen ts is considered, showing that it represents a negligible danger to re liable computation. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.