Metastability and analyticity in a dropletlike model

DOI10.1007/BF01770348zbMath0588.60082OpenAlexW1973537802MaRDI QIDQ1073458

Gert Roepstorff, Lawrence S. Schulman

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01770348

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic limitphase transitionsmetastabilitymaster equationdegeneracy in the eigenvaluesFisher-Felderhof droplet model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70)

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