Numerical study of metastability due to tunneling: The quantum string method

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 491-502

  Qian, Tiezheng ^a   Ren, Weiqing ^b   Shi, Jing ^c   E, Weinan ^c   Sheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier tunneling; Quantum metastability; Rate of decay; String method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMOANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BARRIER TUNNELING; QUANTUM METASTABILITY; RATE OF DECAY; STRING METHOD;

METASTABLE PHASES;

EID: 34247530874     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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