A Three-Josephson-Junction Device with Noise

A Gaussian white noise model and a symmetric dichotomous noise model for a three-Josephson-junction device are studied. It is shown that the symmetric noise can produce net voltage (Its corresponding dc current is zero), which sterns from the multiplicative noise,the asymmetry of the potential or the asymmetry of the potential itselt; respectively for the Gaussian white noise model or for the dichotomous noise model. The net voltage is negative,and exhibits a peak with increasing the additive noise strength (the stochastic resonance). The dc current-voltage characteristics are calculated for the two models. In addition, we find that when the dc current is not zero, in some scope the absolute value of the dc voltage versus the additive noise strength also presents the stochastic resonance.