Thermal decay of a metastable state: exact solution.
Exact solutions are obtained for the thermal decay of a metastable state for two different forms of the potential and for uniform and localized boundary conditions by using the Laplace transform method. The exact inverse Laplace transforms are found for a symmetric case, and the results are compared with other calculations and with the Kramers rate.
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Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel.