Suppression of thermally activated escape by heating
arXiv:0909.1510 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.030101
Abstract
The problem of thermally activated escape over a potential barrier is solved by means of path integrals for one-dimensional reaction dynamics with very general time dependences. For a suitably chosen but still quite simple static potential landscape, the net escape rate may be substantially reduced by temporally increasing the temperature above its unperturbed constant level.
4 pages, 2 figures