Transport statistics of bistable systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26 I, 2004, Pages

  Jordan, Andrew N ^a   Sukhorukov, Eugene V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; BISTABLE SYSTEMS; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PERTURBATION THEORY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STABILITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TUNNEL DIODES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 42749099292     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.260604     Document Type: Article

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