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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 31: Statistical Physics far from Equilibrium

DY 31.4: Talk

Friday, March 26, 2010, 11:15–11:30, H38

Suppression of thermally activated escape by heating — •Sebastian Getfert and Peter Reimann — Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany

The problem of thermally activated escape over a potential barrier is solved by means of path integrals for one-dimensional reaction dynamics with very general time-dependences. For a suitably chosen, but still quite simple static potential landscape, the net escape rate may be substantially reduced by temporally increasing the temperature above its unperturbed, constant level [1].

[1] S. Getfert and P. Reimann, Phys. Rev. E 80, 030101(R) (2009)