This note supplements a recent analysis of the bistable ballast resistor, by Ross and Litster. Their discussion of static phase boundaries is extended to the case of motion with uniform velocity. The existence of an effective potential, entirely analogous to equilibrium, and dependent on detailed balance, is questioned.
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Rolf Landauer (1977) studied this question.
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