Nonequilibrium fluctuation induced escape from a metastable state

J. Ray Chaudhuri (), D. Barik () and S. K. Banik ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 55, issue 3, 333-336

Abstract: Based on a simple microscopic model where the bath is in a non-equilibrium state we study the escape from a metastable state in the over-damped limit. Making use of Fokker-Planck-Smoluchowski description we derive the time dependent escape rate in the non-stationary regime in closed analytical form which brings on to fore a strong non-exponential kinetic of the system mode. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena; random processes; noise; and Brownian motion; 02.50.Ey Stochastic processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2007-00061-3

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