Saddles and dynamics in a solvable mean-field model

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 8301-8306

  Angelani, L ^a   Ruocco, G ^b   Zamponi, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGY;

DIFFUSIVITY; SADDLES; SOLVABLE MEAN FIELD MODEL; TRIGONOMETRIC MODEL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0038476362     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1565996     Document Type: Article

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