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Based on recent work [L. Machura, M. Kostur, P. Talkner, J. Luczka, and P. Hanggi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 040601 (2007)], we extend the study of inertial Brownian motors to the case of an asymmetric potential. It is found that some transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bao-quan Ai , Liang-gang Liu

Reconstructing dynamics using samples from sparsely time-resolved snapshots is an important problem in both natural sciences and machine learning. Here, we introduce a new deep learning approach for solving regularized unbalanced optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhenyi Zhang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

In this paper, we introduce an approach to the protein folding problem from the point of view of statistical physics. Protein folding is a stochastic process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional 3D structure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-26 Jinzhi Lei , Kerson Huang

We study subdiffusive ratchet transport in periodically and randomly flashing potentials. Central Brownian particle is elastically coupled to surrounding auxiliary Brownian quasi-particles which account for the influence of viscoelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-04 Vasyl Kharchenko , Igor Goychuk

The migratory dynamics of cells can be influenced by the complex micro-environment through which they move. It remains unclear how the motility machinery of confined cells responds and adapts to their micro-environment. Here, we propose a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Johannes Flommersfeld , Stefan Stöberl , Omar Shah , Joachim O. Rädler , Chase P. Broedersz

We study the kinetics of protein folding via statistical energy landscape theory. We concentrate on the local-connectivity case, where the configurational changes can only occur among neighboring states, with the folding progress described…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Chi-Lun Lee , George Stell , Jin Wang

We numerically investigate the ratchet transport of mixtures of active and passive particles in a transversal asymmetric channel.A big passive particle is immersed in a 'sea' of active particles. Due to the chirality of active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Bao-quan Ai

The transport of a walker in rocking feedback-controlled ratchets are investigated. The walker consists of two coupled "feet" that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while the walker moves. In the underdamped case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-09 Tianfu Gao , Zhigang Zheng , Jincan Chen

Natural phenomena frequently involve a very large number of interacting molecules moving in confined regions of space. Cellular transport by motor proteins is an example of such collective behavior. We derive a deterministic compartmental…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Yoram Zarai , Michael Margaliot , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

This article deals with transport properties of one dimensional Brownian diffusion under the influence of a correlated quenched random force, distributed as a two-level Poisson process. We find in particular that large time scaling laws of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Cecile MONTHUS

In order to optimize the directed motion of an inertial Brownian motor, we identify the operating conditions that both maximize the motor current and minimize its dispersion. Extensive numerical simulation of an inertial rocked ratchet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lukasz Machura , Marcin Kostur , Fabio Marchesoni , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Luczka

Many forms of cell motility rely on Brownian ratchet mechanisms that involve multiple stochastic processes. We present a computational and theoretical study of the nonequilibrium statistical dynamics of such a many-body ratchet, in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-06 Evan Hohlfeld , Phillip L. Geissler

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis

Given native 2D contact map, protein 3D structure could be reconstructed with accuracy of 2A or better, and such reconstruction is a feasible computational approach for protein folding problem. The prediction accuracy from traditional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-12 Yuhong Wang , Wei Li , Hongmao Sun , Kennie Cruz-Gutierrez

Non-typical transport phenomena may arise when randomly driven particles remain in an active relationship with the environment instead of being passive. If we attribute to Brownian particles an ability to induce alterations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

We use a free energy functional theory to elucidate general properties of heterogeneously ordering, fast folding proteins, and we test our conclusions with lattice simulations. We find that both structural and energetic heterogeneity can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Steven S. Plotkin , Jose N. Onuchic

The Levinthal paradox exposes many critical questions on the protein folding problem, among which we could point out why proteins can reach their native state in a biologically reasonable time. A proper answer to this question is of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-09 Jorge A. Vila

Motivated by a recent prediction to engineer the dispersion relation of a waveguide constructed from atomic components [arXiv:2104.08121], we explore the possibility to create directional transport in an open, collective quantum system. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 R. Gutiérrez-Jáuregui , A. Asenjo-Garcia

This paper presents a method of reconstruction a primary structure of a protein that folds into a given geometrical shape. This method predicts the primary structure of a protein and restores its linear sequence of amino acids in the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-04 Andrii Riazanov , Mikhail Karasikov , Sergei Grudinin

Atomically detailed simulations of RNA folding have proven very challenging in view of the difficulties of developing realistic force fields and the intrinsic computational complexity of sampling rare conformational transitions. To tackle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-26 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Cristian Micheletti , Samuela Pasquali , Pietro Faccioli