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Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1–4 (1997)

Rayleigh-Ritz Calculation of Effective Potential Far from Equilibrium

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Francis J. Alexander1 and Gregory L. Eyink2
1Center for Computational Science, 3 Cummington Street, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
2Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Received 13 June 1996; published in the issue dated 6 January 1997

We demonstrate the utility of a Rayleigh-Ritz scheme recently proposed to compute the nonequilibrium effective potential nonperturbatively in a strong noise regime far from equilibrium. A simple Kramers model of an ionic conductor is used to illustrate the efficiency of the method.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 05.40.+j, 47.27.Jv, 66.30.Dn