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Solution of the Fokker-Planck equation for a particle crossing a square well barrier

✍ Scribed by B. Nowakowski; H.L. Frisch

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
338 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0735-1933

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✦ Synopsis

The Fokker-Planck equation is solved exactly for a thermalized particle crossing a square well barrier.

The Laplace transform ( in time ) of the particle density is obtained explicitly, and is evaluated analytically for the long time range. For this time regime the effective barrier width is to the first approximation the same as for the corresponding Smoluchowski equation.

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