The effects of weak spatiotemporal noise on a bistable one-dimensional system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5114, Issue , 2003, Pages 67-78

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

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation barrier; Kramers prefactor; Kramers theory; Nonzero spatial extent; Rate prefactor; Spatially extended system; Spatiotemporal noise; Transition rate theory; Weak noise

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

KRAMERS THEORY; LANGER-COLEMAN THEORY; SPATIOTEMPORAL NOISE; TRANSITION RATE THEORY;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 0042825457     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.497641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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