Metastability under stochastic dynamics

DOI10.1016/j.spa.2004.07.007zbMath1075.60127OpenAlexW2147107113MaRDI QIDQ2485796

W. Th. F. den Hollander

Publication date: 5 August 2005

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2004.07.007

zbMATH Keywords

potential theoryisoperimetric inequalitiesIsing modellarge deviationsinteracting particle systemsvan der Waals gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Large deviations (60F10) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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