Stochastic transitions: Paths over higher energy barriers can dominate in the early stages
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| author | Fitzgerald, S. P. Hass, A. Bailey Leines, G. Díaz Archer, A. J. |
| author_facet | Fitzgerald, S. P. Hass, A. Bailey Leines, G. Díaz Archer, A. J. |
| contents | The time evolution of many physical, chemical, and biological systems can be modelled by stochastic transitions between the minima of the potential energy surface describing the system of interest. We show that in cases where there are two (or more) possible pathways that the system can take, the time available for the transition to occur is crucially important. The well-known results of reaction rate theory for determining the rates of the transitions apply in the long-time limit. However, at short times, the system can instead choose to pass over higher energy barriers with much higher probability, as long as the distance to travel in phase space is shorter. We construct two simple models to illustrate this general phenomenon. We also present an extension of the gMAM algorithm of Vanden-Eijnden and Heymann [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 128}, 061103 (2008)] to determine the most likely path at both short and long times. |
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| spellingShingle | Stochastic transitions: Paths over higher energy barriers can dominate in the early stages Fitzgerald, S. P. Hass, A. Bailey Leines, G. Díaz Archer, A. J. Statistical Mechanics Materials Science Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics The time evolution of many physical, chemical, and biological systems can be modelled by stochastic transitions between the minima of the potential energy surface describing the system of interest. We show that in cases where there are two (or more) possible pathways that the system can take, the time available for the transition to occur is crucially important. The well-known results of reaction rate theory for determining the rates of the transitions apply in the long-time limit. However, at short times, the system can instead choose to pass over higher energy barriers with much higher probability, as long as the distance to travel in phase space is shorter. We construct two simple models to illustrate this general phenomenon. We also present an extension of the gMAM algorithm of Vanden-Eijnden and Heymann [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 128}, 061103 (2008)] to determine the most likely path at both short and long times. |
| title | Stochastic transitions: Paths over higher energy barriers can dominate in the early stages |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Materials Science Soft Condensed Matter Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11280 |