Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force
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Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force
Thermally activated escape of an over-damped particle from a metastable well under the action of a time-ramped force is studied. We express the mean first passage time (MFPT) as the solution to a partial differential equation, which we solve numerically for a model case. We discuss two approximations of the MFPT, one of which works remarkably well over a wide range of loading rates, while the s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.57.7301