Statistics of dwell times in a reaction with randomly fluctuating rates

George H. Weiss and Jaume Masoliver

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2001, vol. 296, issue 1, 75-82

Abstract: Recent single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy have been analyzed in terms of a reaction with a single fluctuating rate (Shenter, J. Phys. Chem A 103 (1999) 10477). The fluctuations in that analysis are related to the solution of an O–U equation. We propose the use of a simpler type of fluctuation defined in terms of a random telegraph signal. We show that this is equivalent to a four-state Markov model, most of whose properties can be derived exactly in closed form.

Keywords: Single-molecule spectroscopy; Reaction kinetics; Fluctuating rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00153-4

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