TITLE

# Comment on a proposed method for finding barrier height distributions

AUTHOR(S)
Zwanzig, Robert
PUB. DATE
July 1995
SOURCE
Journal of Chemical Physics;7/15/1995, Vol. 103 Issue 3, p1235
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
A recently proposed method for finding the distribution of potential energy barrier heights in many-body systems is tested on a simple one-dimensional potential. In this test, the method does not work. Â© 1995 American Institute of Physics.
ACCESSION #
7640095

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