First passage time problems in time-dependent fields.

DOI10.1007/BF01015328zbMath1086.82535MaRDI QIDQ1963645

George H. Weiss, John E. Fletcher, Shlomo Havlin

Publication date: 2 February 2000

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

zbMATH Keywords

first passage timesdiffusion processesRandom walksresidence timesdiffusive coherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

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