Noise-activated escape from a sloshing potential well

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3942-3945

  Maier, Robert S ^a   Stein, D L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

NOISE ACTIVATED ESCAPE; SLOSHING POTENTIAL WELL;

WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0035971744     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3942     Document Type: Article

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