Noise-activated diffusion in the egg-carton potential

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 4708-4721

  Caratti, G ^a,b   Ferrando, R ^a,b   Spadacini, R ^a,b   Tommei, G E ^a,b  

^a Centro di Fisica delle   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHARGED PARTICLES; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FRICTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PROBABILITY; WHITE NOISE;

DIFFUSION PATH APPROXIMATION; EGG CARTON POTENTIAL; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; MATRIX CONTINUED FRACTION METHOD; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0030285989     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.4708     Document Type: Article

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