Long-term memory induced correction to Arrhenius law

A. Barbier-Chebbah, O. Bénichou (), R. Voituriez and T. Guérin
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A. Barbier-Chebbah: Université de Paris, CNRS
O. Bénichou: CNRS/UPMC
R. Voituriez: CNRS/UPMC
T. Guérin: CNRS/University of Bordeaux

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The Kramers escape problem is a paradigmatic model for the kinetics of rare events, which are usually characterized by Arrhenius law. So far, analytical approaches have failed to capture the kinetics of rare events in the important case of non-Markovian processes with long-term memory, as occurs in the context of reactions involving proteins, long polymers, or strongly viscoelastic fluids. Here, based on a minimal model of non-Markovian Gaussian process with long-term memory, we determine quantitatively the mean FPT to a rare configuration and provide its asymptotics in the limit of a large energy barrier E. Our analysis unveils a correction to Arrhenius law, induced by long-term memory, which we determine analytically. This correction, which we show can be quantitatively significant, takes the form of a second effective energy barrier $$E^{\prime} \,

Date: 2024
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