Optimal barrier subdivision for Kramers' escape rate

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 403-410

  Bekele, Mulugeta ^a,b   Ananthakrishna, G ^b   Kumar, N ^b,c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Activated processes; Kramers problem; Reaction rates

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CONFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; OPTIMIZATION;

FREE ENERGY BARRIER; KRAMERS ESCAPE RATE; OPTIMAL BARRIER SUBDIVISION; OPTIMAL NUMBER; SUPERSYMMETRIC POTENTIAL APPROACH; THERMALLY ACTIVATED KINETICS;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 0030164406     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02852266     Document Type: Article

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