Ben-Jacob

O. Shochet, K. Kassner, E. Ben-Jacob, S. G. Lipson, H. Miiller-Krumbhaar. Morphology transitions during non-equilibrium growth I. Study of equilibrium shapes and properties. Physica A 757 136, 1992. 

D. V. Averim and K. K. Likharev developed a theory for describing the behavior of small tunneling junctions based on electron interactions. They had started from previous work on Josephson junctions (Likharev and Zorin 1985, Ben-Jacob 1985, Averin and Likharev 1986b) and established the fundamental features of the single-charging phenomena. Their work is based on a quantization theory and handles the tunneling phenomenon as a perturbation, described by annihilation and creation operators of a Hamiltonian. 

You may wish to compare the results of your simulation with Ben-Jacob s experimental results.9 Virtually all of the behavior described by Ben-Jacob and co-workers can be effectively modeled using CA. 

Amman M, Wilkins R, Ben-Jacob E et al (1991) Analytic solution for the current-voltage characteristic of two mesoscopic tunnel junctions coupled in series. Phys Rev B 43 1146-1149... 

Ben Jacob, E., Becker, I., Shapira, Y., and Levine, H. (2004). Bacterial linguistic communication and social intelligence. Trends Microbiol., 12, 366-72. 

Gabay T, Jakobs E, Ben-Jacob E et al (2005) Engineered self-organisation of neural networks using carbon nanotube clusters. Physica A 350 611-621... 

Ben-Jacob, E. Cohen, I. Golding, I. Gutnik, D.L. Tcherpakov, M. Helbing, D. Ron, I.G. Bacterial cooperative organization under antibiotic stress. Physical A 2000, 282, 247-282. 

The simplest problem of this kind is the escape from a truncated harmonic well in the low-friction Markovian limit. This problem was treated by Ben Jacob et al. The model is defined by... 

E Ben Jacob, D. Bergman, B. Carmeli, and A. Nitzan, Proc. 6th Internat. Conf. on Noise in Physical Systems (Washington, DC, 1981, unpublished). 

Ben-Jacob, E., Cohen, I. and Gutnick, D.L. (1998). Cooperative organization of bacterial colonies from genotype to morphotype. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 52, 779-806. 

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