Diffusion in a logarithmic potential: Scaling and selection in the approach to equilibrium

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hirschberg, Ori ^a   Mukamel, David ^a   Schütz, Gunter M ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion; stochastic processes (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857707113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/02/P02001     Document Type: Article

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