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One-parameter nonrelativistic supersymmetry for microtubules

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v5

Abstract

The one-parameter nonrelativistic supersymmetry of Mielnik [J. Math. Phys. 25, 3387 (1984)] is applied to the simple supersymmetric model of Caticha [Phys. Rev. A 51, 4264 (1995)] in the form used by Rosu [Phys. Rev. E 55, 2038 (1997)] for microtubules. By this means, we introduce Montroll double-well potentials with singularities that move along the positive or negative traveling direction depending on the sign of the free parameter of Mielnik's method. Possible interpretations of the singularity are either microtubule associated proteins (motors) or structural discontinuities in the arrangement of the tubulin molecules

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0204099,
  title  = {One-parameter nonrelativistic supersymmetry for microtubules},
  author = {H. C. Rosu and J. M. Moran-Mirabal and O. Cornejo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0204099},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, minor changes

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