Reaction paths based on mean first-passage times

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1313-1319

  Park, Sanghyun ^a   Sener, Melih K ^b   Lu, Deyu ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROBABILITY; REACTION KINETICS;

MEAN FIRST-PASSAGE TIME (MFPT);

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0043268848     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1570396     Document Type: Article

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