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Recent experiments indicate that electromagnetic hysteresis behavior can be exhibited at the molecular level.A MD simulation using 2-body potentials and switches to form and break bonds is implemented to determine whether chemical reaction…
We investigate the possibility of extending the notion of temperature in a stochastic model for the RNA/protein folding driven out of equilibrium. We simulate the dynamics of a small RNA hairpin subject to an external pulling force, which…
We show theoretically that the mean turbulent dynamics can be described by a kinetic theory representation with a single free relaxation time that depends on space and time. A proper kinetic equation is constructed from averaging the…
The investigation of the spectral kinetic model of the Multipole Resonance Probe (MRP) is presented and discussed in this paper. The MRP is a radio-frequency driven probe of the particular spherical design, which is suitable for the…
The notion of mean temperature is crucial for a number of fields including climate science, fluid dynamics and biophysics. However, so far its correct thermodynamic foundation is lacking or even believed to be impossible. A physically…
Kinetic energy of individual fission fragment for actinide nuclei is, for example, important for evaluating the prompt-neutron spectrum in the laboratory system. It is experimentally known that kinetic energy for each fragment is constant…
It is usually assumed, in classical statistical mechanics, that the temperature should coincide, apart from a suitable constant factor, with the mean kinetic energy of the particles. We show that this is not the case for \FPU systems, in…
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