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We consider six different secondary structures of proteins and construct two types of Go-type off-lattice models: with the steric constraints and without. The basic aminoacid-aminoacid potential is Lennard Jones for the native contacts and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Trinh Xuan Hoang , Marek Cieplak

By using a Generalized Hubbard model for bosons, the energy transfer in a nonlinear quantum lattice is studied, with special emphasis on the interplay between local and nonlocal nonlinearity. For a strong local nonlinearity, it is shown…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Cyril Falvo , Vincent Pouthier , J. C. Eilbeck

We study scaling properties of energy spreading in disordered strongly nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices. Such lattices consist of nonlinearly coupled local linear or nonlinear oscillators, and demonstrate a rather slow, subdiffusive spreading…

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Kinks (or domain walls) are localized transitions between distinct ground states associated with a topological invariant, and are central to many phenomena across physics, from condensed matter to cosmology. While phonon (i.e.,…

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Nonlinear mechanical metamaterials can exhibit emergent transport phenomena that mimic topological protection without relying on linear band topology. Here, we realize a bifurcation-induced nonreciprocal lattice that supports robust…

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Energy barriers for different moves of a single Rh adatom in the vicinity of steps on Rh(111) surface are studied with molecular statics. Interatomic interactions are modeled by the semi-empirical many-body Rosato-Guillope-Legrand…

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Quasielastic scattering excitation function at large backward angle has been measured for the weakly bound system, $^{7}$Li+$^{159}$Tb at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The corresponding quasielastic barrier distribution has been…

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A Wigner-Poisson kinetic equation describing charge transport in doped semiconductor superlattices is proposed. Electrons are supposed to occupy the lowest miniband, exchange of lateral momentum is ignored and the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla , R. Escobedo

The folding kinetics of a number of sequences for off-lattice continuum model of proteins is studied using Langevin simulations at two values of the friction coefficient. We show that there is a remarkable correlation between folding times,…

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The structure of the quark propagator in momentum space is explored taking into account non-perturbative QCD dynamics constraints for the quark spectral densities derived previously. We assume that the scalar and vector component of the…

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We study the propagation of wave packets for a one-dimensional system of two coupled Schr\"odinger equations with a cubic nonlinearity, in the semi-classical limit. Couplings are induced by the nonlinearity and by the potential, whose…

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We study the evolution of a wave packet in a nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice equation subject to a dc bias. In the absence of nonlinearity all normal modes are spatially localized giving rise to a Stark ladder with an equidistant eigenvalue…

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We generalize Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) semi-classical equations for pseudospin-1 $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ materials with arbitrary hopping parameter $0 < \alpha < 1$, which includes the dice lattice and graphene as two limiting cases.…

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We elucidate the physics of the dynamical transition via 10-100ns molecular dynamics simulations at temperatures spanning 160-300K. By tracking the energy fluctuations, we show that the protein dynamical transition is marked by a cross-over…

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Much having learned about Floquet dynamics of pseudospin-$1/2$ system namely, graphene, we here address the stroboscopic properties of a periodically kicked {three-band fermionic system such as $\alpha$-T$_3$ lattice. This particular model…

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