Thermally enhanced stability in fluctuating bistable potentials

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

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Mankin, Romi ^a   Soika, Erkki ^a   Sauga, Ako ^a   Ainsaar, Ain ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METASTABLE PHASES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

DICHOTOMOUS NOISE; VARIATIONS OF TEMPERATURE;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 43949120454     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051113     Document Type: Article

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