Memory damping and energy-diffusion-controlled escape

1 April 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 29 (4) , 2265-2267
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.29.2265

Abstract

A recent refinement by Büttiker, Harris, and Landauer [Phys. Rev. B 28, 1268 (1983)] of Kramers's theory of activated escape at low damping is extended to the non-Markovian case with memory damping.

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