Computation of current cumulants for small nonequilibrium systems

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-75

  Baiesi, Marco ^a   Maes, Christian ^a   Netočný, Karel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cumulant expansion; Current fluctuations; Nonequilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349190307     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-009-9723-3     Document Type: Article

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