Controlling cooperativity of a metastable open system coupled weakly to a noisy environment*
Teslenko Victor I.a)†, Kapitanchuk Oleksiy L.a)‡, Yang Zhaob)§
       
Illustration of open system states (points and levels) being distinctly distant in energy from each other (in thermal energy units) and evolving in an adiabatic, a stochastic scale, and a transient time scale (characterized in the text).