In this paper we investigate the motion of a particle in the overdamped one-dimensional system with a spatially periodic potential under the influence of a sinusoidal wave and dichotomic (binary) noise. We demonstrate the effect of synchronization between the mean velocity of a particle and the phase velocity of the running wave controlled by the noise. The results of numerical simulation are in good agreement with a full-scale experiment.

• Received 22 July 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.58.1662