Abstract: How much time does it take for two molecules to react? If a reaction occurs upon contact, the answer to this question boils down to the classic first-passage time problem: find the time it takes for the two molecules to meet. However, this is not always the case as molecules switch stochastically between reactive and non-reactive states. The reaction is then said to be “gated” by the internal states of the molecules involved, which could have a dramatic influence on kinetics. A unified, continuous-time, approach to gated reactions on networ...
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Statistical physics