Smoluchowski equation approach for quantum Brownian motion in a tilted periodic potential

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

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Coffey, William T ^a   Kalmykov, Yuri P ^b   Titov, Serguey V ^c   Cleary, Liam ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c INST OF RADIO ENG AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXCAVATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEDIMENTATION; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); WAVE FUNCTIONS;

AC RESPONSE; BARRIER HEIGHT; BROWNIAN MOTIONS; CLASSICAL BEHAVIOR; CONFIGURATION SPACES; CONTINUED FRACTIONS; DC CURRENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; IMPEDANCE CURVES; INTEGRAL REPRESENTATIONS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; JOSEPHSON OSCILLATIONS; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; Q FACTORS; QUANTUM BROWNIAN MOTIONS; QUANTUM CORRECTIONS; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; STATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 51849100314     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.031114     Document Type: Article

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