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Metastable States

Metastable States is a thermodynamic state of a system that persists for a significant duration in a local minimum of the free energy landscape, distinguishable from stable equilibrium states by its finite lifetime and susceptibility to decay upon perturbation.

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Metastable State

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Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers

Peter Hänggi, Peter Talkner, Michal Borkovec · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1990 · 6.2K citations · Full text

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Influence of Dissipation on Quantum Tunneling in Macroscopic Systems

A. O. Caldeira, A. J. Leggett · Physical Review Letters · 1981 · 2.3K citations

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Phase behaviour of metastable water

Peter H. Poole, Francesco Sciortino, Ulrich Essmann et al. · Nature · 1992 · 1.9K citations

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Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Michael Fleischhauer, Mikhail D. Lukin · Physical Review Letters · 2000 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Multicanonical ensemble: A new approach to simulate first-order phase transitions

Bernd A. Berg, Thomas Neuhaus · Physical Review Letters · 1992 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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  1. BS
    Bernardo Spagnolo

    University of Palermo, Italy

    24 publications · 1.9K citations

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  2. MP
    Michele Parrinello

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    16 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. TW
    Th. Woike

    University of Cologne, Germany

    17 publications · 753 citations

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  4. SH
    S. Haussühl

    University of Cologne, Germany

    15 publications · 747 citations

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  5. JL
    Jean‐François Létard

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    15 publications · 536 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    68 h-index

    1.1K publications

    64.3K citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    41 h-index

    195 publications

    13.4K citations

  3. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    40 h-index

    354 publications

    18.8K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    37 h-index

    163 publications

    12.3K citations

  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    34 h-index

    211 publications

    11.1K citations

  6. National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Gaithersburg, United States

    34 h-index

    138 publications

    10.1K citations

  7. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    34 h-index

    143 publications

    7.5K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    34 h-index

    124 publications

    11.1K citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 339 publications · 36.3K citations

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    565 publications · 31.9K citations

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  3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 211 publications · 13.9K citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Physics

    175 publications · 8.5K citations

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  5. Physical Review A

    PRA · 175 publications · 8.1K citations

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