Short time scales in the Kramers problem: a stepwise growth of the escape flux

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1665-1669

  Soskin, S M ^a   Sheka, V I ^a   Linnik, T L ^a   Mannella, R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DECOMPOSITION; FRICTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EIGENOSCILLATION; ESCAPE FLUX; KRAMERS PROBLEM; NOISE INDUCED FLUX;

MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 0035250509     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1665     Document Type: Article

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