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

We show how reaction coordinate path lengths affect the relaxation efficien cy of a complex system. To this purpose, we consider the metric contributio ns to the transition rates. These metric contributions contain information about the system's change of geometry at the barrier crossing and, therefor e, are directly related, differentially, to the path lengths. The results o f this work can enrich the accuracy with which we describe how complex syst ems relax to preferential structures.