Self-organized digital disorder of Davydov's beta kink
Condensed Matter
2008-02-03 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
solv-int
Abstract
I discuss the digital disorder introduced by Rosu and Canessa [Phys. Rev. E 47, R3818 (1993)] in the Davydov model of energy diffusion along \alpha-helix protein chains. The digitally disordered Davydov beta kinks display self-organized features, i.e., power law correlations both in time and space, that may be attributed to incipient dynamic structural changes of the protein chain as a consequence of coarse-graining the fluctuations due to microscopic degrees of freedom. In this paper, I provide a simple semiconductor model for the flicker noise and also comment on the multifractality that one may associate with the protein chains by means of digital disorder
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9410034,
title = {Self-organized digital disorder of Davydov's beta kink},
author = {H. C. Rosu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9410034},
year = {2008}
}
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4pp, twocolumn, references updated