Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force

Details Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force

1998-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802182v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, including 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.57.7301

Thermally activated escape of an over-damped particle from a metastable well under the action of a time-ramped force is studied. We express the mean first passage time (MFPT) as the solution to a partial differential equation, which we solve numerically for a model case. We discuss two approximations of the MFPT, one of which works remarkably well over a wide range of loading rates, while the second is easy to calculate and can provide a valuable first estimate.

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