Metastability for a Stochastic Dynamics with a Parallel Heat Bath Updating Rule

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 183-217

  Cirillo, Emilio N M ^a   Nardi, Francesca R ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Low temperature dynamics; Metastability; Probabilistic cellular automata; Stochastic dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037210337     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021070712382     Document Type: Article

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