Relaxation dynamics in the presence of unequally spaced attractors along the reaction coordinate

Abstract

We show how reaction coordinate path lengths affect the relaxation efficiency of a complex system. To this purpose, we consider the metric contributions to the transition rates. These metric contributions preserve informations about the geometry change of the system at the barrier crossing and, therefore, are directly related to the path lengths. The output of the present work can lead to identify a way to enrich our knowledge about the ability of the complex systems to relax only to preferential structures.