TITLE

# Transition times in the low-noise limit of stochastic dynamics

AUTHOR(S)
Malinin, Sergey V.; Chernyak, Vladimir Y.
PUB. DATE
January 2010
SOURCE
Journal of Chemical Physics;1/7/2010, Vol. 132 Issue 1, p014504
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
We study the transition time distribution for a particle moving between two wells of a multidimensional potential in the low-noise limit of overdamped Langevin dynamics. Possible transition paths are restricted to a thin tube surrounding the most probable trajectory. We demonstrate that finding the transition time distribution reduces to a one-dimensional problem. The resulting transition time distribution has a universal and compact form. We suggest that transition barriers can be estimated from a single-temperature experiment if both the life times and the transition times are measured.
ACCESSION #
47375713

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