| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L69381/01 |
| Title: |
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF ESCAPE OVER A FLUCTUATING POTENTIAL BARRIER |
| Principal Investigator: |
McClintock, Professor P |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Lancaster University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 November 1997 |
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30 April 1999 |
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39,427
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There are many complex systems and processes - e.g. relaxation in glasses, dynamics of dye-lasers, electron transport in a quantum double-well structure, or chemical reactions with large molecules - whose dynamics are governed by two or more widely differing timescales. The process of noise-assisted escape over a potential barrier may therefore be accompanied by simultaneous changes in the shape of the barrier itself, giving rise to resonant activation and resonant inhibition. It is proposed to study these and other important phenomena related to changes in the correlation function of the barrier fluctuations. The problem is inherently difficult, but is expected to yield to a joint collaborative approach involving analytic theory (JI and AJMcK) guided and tested by analogue electronic experiments (JI and PVEMcC)
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