Escape from a metastable well under a time-ramped force

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 7301-7304

  Shillcock, Julian ^a   Seifert, Udo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

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EID: 0000296680     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.57.7301     Document Type: Article

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16. For a reflecting boundary at x=xl, some trivial modifications of subsequent formula will occur.
17. In this limit, the solution of Eq. (5) becomes T(x,τ)=τ2+2(xr-x)/μ-τ, since formally L†=0. Setting τ=0 then also leads to Eq. (18).