Asymmetric confinement in a noisy bistable device

A Brownian particle hopping in a symmetric double-well potential can be statistically confined to a single well by the simultaneous action of a) two periodic input signals, one tilting the minima, the other one modulating the barrier height; b) an additive and a purely multiplicative random signal, generated by a unique source and thus preserving a certain degree of statistical correlation. In view of technological implementation, such a basic mechanism for asymmetric confinement can be conveniently maximized by tuning the input signal parameters (correlation time, phase/time lag, amplitudes), thus revealing a resonant localization mechanism of wide applicability.