Metastability

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A metastable system with a weakly stable state (1), an unstable transition state (2) and a strongly stable state (3)

Metastability is the ability of a non-equilibrium state to persist for some period of time.

• See Metastability in molecules
• See Metastability in physics (Metastable phases)
• See Metastability in electronics
• See Metastability in nuclear decay
• See Metastability in the brain
• See Metastasis (Xenakis composition)

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