Spectral theory of metastability and extinction in birth-death systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Assaf, Michael ^a   Meerson, Baruch ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTION KINETICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BINARY ANNIHILATION; BIRTH-DEATH SYSTEMS; LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; METASTABLE STATE;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

EID: 33751110243     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.200602     Document Type: Article

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