Diffusion in bistable potentials: Exact solutions
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 29 (1) , 393-395
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.29.393
Abstract
Diffusion of a particle in the quadratic bistable potential and the -dimensional double well with is examined in the limit of small noise. We obtain exact closed-form expressions for the probability distribution valid for all times.
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