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We constrain proton structure fluctuations at small-$x$ by comparing with the HERA diffractive vector meson production data, and find that large geometric fluctuations in the proton wave function are needed. Hydrodynamical simulations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Prithwish Tribedy

The conformational change of biological macromolecule is investigated from the point of quantum transition. A quantum theory on protein folding is proposed. Compared with other dynamical variables such as mobile electrons, chemical bonds…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-06 LiaoFu Luo

Using the conformable fractional calculus, a new formulation of the Bohr Hamiltonian is introduced. The conformable fractional energy spectra of free- and two- parameters anharmonic oscillator potentials are investigated. The energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 M. M. Hammad

The folding ability of a heteropolymer model for proteins subject to Monte Carlo dynamics on a simple cubic lattice is shown to be strongly correlated with the energy gap between the native state and the structurally dissimilar part of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron R. Dinner , Victor Abkevich , Eugene Shakhnovich , Martin Karplus

In this study, internal energy (U), electric field (E) and particle number (N) which specify the system quantities i.e. thermodynamical quantities for the proteins. In the frame of thermodynamical formalism, the relation between the heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Oylumluoglu , F. Buyukkilic , D. Demirhan

Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into chromatin: one-dimensional arrays of nucleosomes separated by stretches of linker DNA are folded into 30-nm chromatin fibers which in turn form higher-order structures. Each nucleosome, the fundamental unit…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-25 Răzvan V. Chereji , Alexandre V. Morozov

In this paper, we study the structure and dynamical properties of protein contact networks with respect to other biological networks, together with simulated archetypal models acting as probes. We consider both classical topological…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-04 Lorenzo Livi , Enrico Maiorino , Andrea Pinna , Alireza Sadeghian , Antonello Rizzi , Alessandro Giuliani

This contribution presents a review of our present theoretical as well as experimental knowledge of different fluctuation observables relevant to nuclear multifragmentation. The possible connection between the presence of a fluctuation peak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Gulminelli , M. D'Agostino

Correlation effects in CuO$_2$ layers give rise to a complicated landscape of collective excitations in high-T$_{\rm c}$ cuprates. Their description requires an accurate account for electronic fluctuations at a very broad energy range and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-09 E. A. Stepanov , L. Peters , I. S. Krivenko , A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson , A. N. Rubtsov

We combine experiments and theory to investigate the dynamics and orientational fluctuations of ferromagnetic microellipsoids that form a ribbon-like structure due to attractive dipolar forces. When assembled in the ribbon, the ellipsoids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-26 Helena Massana-Cid , Fernando Martinez-Pedrero , Andrejs Cebers , Pietro Tierno

In this article we study the trapped motion of a molecule undergoing diffusivity fluctuations inside a harmonic potential. For the same diffusing-diffusivity process, we investigate two possible interpretations. Depending on whether…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-04 Yann Lanoiselée , Aleksander Stanislavsky , Davide Calebiro , Aleksander Weron

The one-loop nuclear structure corrections of order (Z alpha)^5 to the Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting of the deuterium are calculated. The contribution of the deuteron structure effects to the isotope shift (ep)-(ed), (mu p)-(mu d) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Faustov , A. P. Martynenko

The electronic properties and the molecular orientation of Zn-tetraphenyl-porphyrin films deposited on Si(111) have been investigated using synchrotron radiation. For the first time we have revealed and assigned the fine structures in the…

We investigate the presence of structural collective motions on a picosecond time scale for the heme protein, cytochrome c, as a function of oxidation and hydration, using terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy and molecular dynamics…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-19 Yunfen He , Jing-Yin Chen , Joseph R. Knab , Wenjun Zheng , Andrea G. Markelz

The some dynamic properties of a random heteropolymer in the condensed state are studied in the mode coupling approximation. In agreement with recent report a dynamic friction increasing is predicted for the random heteropolymer with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sh. Mamasakhlisov , V. F. Morozov

Molecular motion at metallic surfaces is affected by nonadiabatic effects and electron-phonon coupling. The ensuing energy dissipation and dynamical steering effects are not captured by classical molecular dynamics simulations, but can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Connor L. Box , Wojciech G. Stark , Reinhard J. Maurer

Baryonic matter close to the saturation density is very likely to present complex inhomogeneous structures collectively known under the name of pasta phase. At finite temperature, the different geometric structures are expected to coexist,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Mateus R. Pelicer , Débora P. Menezes , Celso C. Barros , Francesca Gulminelli

Numerical simulations of hydrated proteins show that protein hydration shells are polarized into a ferroelectric cluster with a large magnitude of its average dipole moment. The emergence of this new mesophase dramatically alters the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-06-02 David N. LeBard , Dmitry V. Matyushov

It is shown that a small subset of modes which are likely to be involved in protein functional motions of large amplitude can be determined by retaining the most robust normal modes obtained using different protein models. This result…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Samuel Nicolay , Yves-Henri Sanejouand

Thermal unfolding of proteins is compared to folding and mechanical stretching in a simple topology-based dynamical model. We define the unfolding time and demonstrate its low-temperature divergence. Below a characteristic temperature,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Marek Cieplak , Joanna I. Sulkowska