The quantum analog of Kramers's classical theory of the rate of activated events is presented. By means of a path-integral approach, the correlation function expression for the rate of barrier crossing by a quantum mechanical particle coupled to a heat bath is evaluated for finite temperatures. Tunneling effects are dramatically diminished by the frictional influence of the heat bath.
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Peter G. Wolynes (1981) studied this question.
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