Rupture of an extended object: a many-body Kramers calculation

Anirban Sain1, Cristiano L Dias, Martin Grant

  • 1Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Powai 400076, India. asain@phy.iitb.ac.in

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