Arcsine law and multistable Brownian dynamics in a tilted periodic potential

J Spiechowicz1, J Łuczka1

  • 1Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland.

Physical Review. E
|September 16, 2021
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