Inferring intermediate states by leveraging the many-body Arrhenius law

Autor: Kumar, Vishwajeet, Pal, Arnab, Shpielberg, Ohad
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Metastable states appear as long-lived intermediate states in various natural transport phenomena which are governed by energy landscapes. Moreover, they dominate a system's evolution in deciding the selective outcome or shedding light on the preferred mechanism on how a system explores the energy landscape. It is thus crucial to develop techniques to quantify these metastabilities hence uncovering key details of the energy landscape. Here, we propose a powerful method by leveraging a many-body Arrhenius law that detects the metastabilites in an escape problem, involving interacting particles with excluded volume confined to a complex energy landscape. Observing transport in colloidal systems or translocation of macromolecules through biological pores can be an ideal test bed to verify our results.
Databáze: arXiv