Felderhof, B.U. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 8, pp. 1388-1398
The escape by diffusion of a particle from a potential well in one dimension is strongly influenced by the application of a field in the adjacent half-space. At long times the probability distribution becomes a uniformly moving and steadily broadening gaussian in this half-space. The mean time...