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Decay of a metastable state activated by non-Gaussian noise: A critical review of the generalized Kramers problem

✍ Scribed by Eugene V. Sukhorukov; Andrew N. Jordan

Book ID: 104086462
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 173 KB
Volume: 42
Category: Article
ISSN: 1386-9477
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2009.06.023

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