Quantum Smoluchowski equation: Escape from a metastable state

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 318, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 6-13

  Banerjee, Dhruba ^a   Bag, Bidhan Chandra ^b   Banik, Suman Kumar ^a   Ray, Deb Shankar ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^b VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Activated rate processes; Quantum Smoluchowski equation; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRICTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACTIVATED RATE PROCESSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037302766     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01394-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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