title: Suppression of thermally activated escape by heating.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Getfert
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reimann
mesh_terms: D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical