Müller, Reinhard; Talkner, Peter; Reimann, Peter - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 247 (1997) 1, pp. 338-356
The relation between mean first passage times T and transition rates Γ in noisy dynamical systems with metastable states is investigated. It is shown that the inverse mean first passage time to the separatrix of the noiseless system may deviate from twice the rate not only because in general...