English

Exit event from a metastable state and Eyring-Kramers law for the overdamped Langevin dynamics

Analysis of PDEs 2018-11-19 v1

Abstract

In molecular dynamics, several algorithms have been designed over the past few years to accelerate the exit event from a metastable region of the configuration space. Some of them are based on the fact that the exit event from a metastable region is well approximated by a Markov jump process. In this work, we present recent results on the exit event from a metastable region for the overdamped Langevin dynamics obtained in [17, 18, 49]. These results aim in particular at justifying the use of a Markov jump process parametrized by the Eyring-Kramers law to model the exit event from a metastable region.

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@article{arxiv.1811.06786,
  title  = {Exit event from a metastable state and Eyring-Kramers law for the overdamped Langevin dynamics},
  author = {Tony Lelièvre and Dorian Le Peutrec and Boris Nectoux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06786},
  year   = {2018}
}