Escape-energy distribution for particles in an extremely underdamped potential well

1 August 1984

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

Vol. 30 (3) , 1551-1553
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.30.1551

Abstract

The average kinetic energy, at the barrier, of particles escaping out of an extremely underdamped potential well is calculated and compared with computational data. This energy approaches zero as the well damping is allowed to vanish.

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