title: Stabilization of metastable states.
abstract: An exact solution is obtained for a particle moving in a piecewise square nonsymmetric potential of fluctuating height. It turns out that the population of a metastable state increases in the presence of fluctuations similar to a previously found effect due to an external periodic field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gitterman