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Under constant applied force, the separation of double-stranded DNA into two single strands is known to proceed through a series of pauses and jumps. Given experimental traces of constant-force unzipping, we present a method whereby the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 J. D. Weeks , J. B. Lucks , Y. Kafri , C. Danilowicz , D. R. Nelson , M. Prentiss

We present a unified scaling description for the dynamics of monomers of a semiflexible chain under good solvent condition in the free draining limit. We consider both the cases where the contour length $L$ is comparable to the persistence…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Aiqun Huang , Aniket Bhattacharya , Kurt Binder

The dynamics of swollen fractal networks (Rouse model) has been studied through computer simulations. The fluctuation-relaxation theorem was used instead of the usual Langevin approach to Brownian dynamics. We measured the equivalent of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Alvaro V. N. C. Teixeira , Pedro Licinio

We study DNA self-assembly and DNA computation using a coarse-grained DNA model within the directional dynamic bonding framework {[}C. Svaneborg, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1793 (2012){]}. In our model, a single nucleotide or domain is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-13 Carsten Svaneborg , Harold Fellermann , Steen Rasmussen

The phase diagram of a water solution of DNA and oppositely charged spherical macroions is studied. DNA winds around spheres to form beads-on-a-string complexes resembling the chromatin 10 nm fiber. At small enough concentration of spheres…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Toan T. Nguyen , Boris I. Shklovskii

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment has proved to be an effective means of measuring two-point correlation function of identical particles. We analyze experimental observation of stripes formation of a phase fluctuating Bose-Einstein…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We present a model for semiflexible polymers in Hamiltonian formulation which interpolates between a Rouse chain and worm-like chain. Both models are realized as limits for the parameters. The model parameters can also be chosen to match…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Gerard T. Barkema , J. M. J. van Leeuwen

It is shown that the nucleotide sequences in DNA molecules have cluster-scaling properties (discovered for the first time in turbulent processes: Sreenivasan and Bershadskii, 2006, J. Stat. Phys., 125, 1141-1153.). These properties are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-04 A. Bershadskii

The effective DNA-DNA interaction force is calculated by computer simulations with explicit tetravalent counterions and monovalent salt. For overcharged DNA molecules, the interaction force shows a double-minimum structure. The positions…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 E. Allahyarov , G. Gompper , H. Löwen

There is a long-standing experimental observation that the melting of topologically constrained DNA, such as circular-closed plasmids, is less abrupt than that of linear molecules. This finding points to an intriguing role of topology in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-20 Y. A. G. Fosado , D. Michieletto , D. Marenduzzo

The nonlinear excitations induced in DNA by external force are considered on the basis of Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model. It is shown that such impact can lead to creation of bubbles which can propogate through the molecule. The interaction…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-06 V. D. Lakhno , A. P. Chetverikov

Spatial non-uniformity in tight-binding models serves as a source of rich phenomena. In this paper, we study a diamond-chain tight-binding model with a spatially-modulated magnetic flux at each plaquette. In the numerical studies with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yoshihito Kuno , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a dilute, lattice-confined Bose-Fermi mixture initialized in a highly excited state consisting of boson-fermion pairs (doublons) occupying single lattice sites. This system represents a…

A general theory of nucleation for colloids and macromolecules in solution is formulated within the context of fluctuating hydrodynamics. A formalism for the determination of nucleation pathways is developed and stochastic differential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-23 James F. Lutsko

We modify and extend the recently developed statistical mechanical model for predicting the thermodynamic properties of chain molecules having noncovalent double-stranded conformations, as in RNA or ssDNA, and $\beta-$sheets in protein, by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Fei Liu , Luru Dai , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

This paper concentrates on relationships of formal systems with biology. The paper is based on previous papers by the author. We have freely used texts of those papers where the formulations are of use, and we have extended the concepts and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Louis H. Kauffman

Equilibrating proteins and other biomacromolecules is cardinal for molecular dynamics simulation of such biological systems in which they perform free dynamics without any externally-applied mechanical constraint, until thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-11 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled droplets, confined in a one dimensional micro-fluidic channel. On one hand, neighboring droplets align and form large trains of droplets moving in the same direction. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Pierre Illien , Charlotte de Blois , Yang Liu , Marjolein N. van der Linden , Olivier Dauchot

DNA cyclization is a powerful technique to gain insight into the nature of DNA bending. The worm-like chain model provides a good description of small to moderate bending fluctuations, but some experiments on strongly-bent shorter molecules…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-03 Ryan M. Harrison , Flavio Romano , Thomas E. Ouldridge , Ard A. Louis , Jonathan P. K. Doye

We analyse how the sampling dynamics of distributions evolve in score-based diffusion models using cross-fluctuations, a centered-moment statistic from statistical physics. Specifically, we show that starting from an unbiased isotropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sai Niranjan Ramachandran , Manish Krishan Lal , Suvrit Sra