Fluctuations and Fracture
- 29 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (22) , 4547-4550
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.74.4547
Abstract
This Letter describes the way that metastable systems escape from traps. Brief periods during which the system apparently runs backwards in time play a crucial role. These ideas are applied to a model for one of nature's most obviously irreversible phenomena, the shattering of a body by a crack.Keywords
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