Harvesting Thermal Fluctuations: Activation Process Induced by a Nonlinear Chain in Thermal Equilibrium
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We present a model in which the immediate environment of a bistable system is a molecular chain which in turn is connected to a thermal environment of the Langevin Permanent address: Departament de Qúımica-F́ısica, Universitat de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Permanent address: Instituto de Astronomı́a, Apdo. Postal 70-264, Ciudad Universitaria, México D. F. 04510, México Present address: Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2008