Elsevier

Physica

Volume 7, Issue 4, April 1940, Pages 284-304
Physica

Brownian motion in a field of force and the diffusion model of chemical reactions

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Abstract

A particle which is caught in a potential hole and which, through the shuttling action of Brownian motion, can escape over a potential barrier yields a suitable model for elucidating the applicability of the transition state method for calculating the rate of chemical reactions.

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