Passage times for the decay of an unstable state triggered by colored noise
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- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 39 (5), 2722-2724
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.39.2722
Abstract
We study the decay of an unstable state in the presence of colored noise by calculating the moment generating function of the passage-time distribution. The problems of the independence of the initial condition in this non-Markovian process and that of nonlinear effects are addressed. Our results are compared with recent analog simulations.Keywords
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