Surmounting Oscillating Barriers
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Thermally activated escape over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving is considered. By means of novel time-dependent path-integral methods we derive asymptotically exact weak-noise expressions for both the instantaneous and the time-averaged escape rate. The agreement with accurate numerical results is excellent over a wide range of driving strengths and driving frequencies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911342,
title = {Surmounting Oscillating Barriers},
author = {Jörg Lehmann and Peter Reimann and Peter Hänggi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911342},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures