Active Brownian motion in threshold distribution of a Coulomb blockade model

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

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Narumi, Takayuki ^a   Suzuki, Masaru ^a   Hidaka, Yoshiki ^a   Asai, Tetsuya ^b   Kai, Shoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT FLOWS; CURRENT VOLTAGE; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; THRESHOLD DISTRIBUTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

COULOMB BLOCKADE;

EID: 83255163949     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051137     Document Type: Article

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