Scaling and crossovers in activated escape near a bifurcation point

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Ryvkine, D ^a   Dykman, M I ^a   Golding, B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYSTERESIS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MODULATION; NUCLEATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SWITCHING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

ACTIVATED ESCAPE; BIFURCATION POINT; CROSSOVERS; SCALINGS;

TRANSITION FLOW;

EID: 37649032923     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061102     Document Type: Article

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