Suppression of thermally activated escape by heating.
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.
Getfert
Sebastian
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Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Reimann
Peter
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D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical