Metastable lifetime for a class of chemical systems near criticality

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 60-68

  Gaveau, Bernard ^a   Latrémolière, Daniel ^b   Moreau, Michel ^b  

^a Lab Equat aux Derivees Partielles   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

AUTOCATALYTIC CHEMICAL SYSTEMS; FINITE METASTABLE STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0343338325     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00360-5     Document Type: Article

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