Short time-scales in the Kramers problem

Soskin, Stanislav M. and Sheka, V. I. and Linnik, T. L. and Arrayas, M. and Kaufman, I. Kh. and Luchinsky, D. G. and McClintock, Peter V. E. (2000) Short time-scales in the Kramers problem. AIP Conference Proceedings, 511. pp. 503-508. ISSN 0094-243X

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Abstract

Escape from a metastable potential is considered on time-scales less than are needed for the creation of quasi-equilibrium within the well. It is shown that the escape flux may then depend exponentially strongly, and in a complicated way, on friction and time