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Diffusive traversal time of a one-dimensional medium

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It is shown that the mean time to traverse a medium in a rangea, b fromb toa is given byT= (a−b)2/3D, whereD is the diffusion coefficient.

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  1. R. Landauer and M. Büttiker,Phys. Rev. B, to be published.

  2. C. W. Gardiner,A Handbook of Stochastic Methods (Springer, Heidelberg, 1986).

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  1. Physics Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    C. W. Gardiner

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Gardiner, C.W. Diffusive traversal time of a one-dimensional medium. J Stat Phys 49, 827–828 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009358

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