Decay to the nonequilibrium steady state of the thermal diffusion in a tilted periodic potential

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2006.06.004zbMath1108.82034arXivcond-mat/0601431OpenAlexW1995792141MaRDI QIDQ2507802

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 5 October 2006

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601431

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationthermal diffusiondecay rateWKB analysistilted periodic potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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