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Robust oscillations play crucial roles in a wide variety of biological processes and are often generated by deterministic mechanisms. However, stochastic fluctuations often generate complex perturbations of these deterministic oscillations,…
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Biochemical circadian rhythm oscillations play an important role in many signalling mechanisms. In this work, we explore some of the biophysical mechanisms responsible for sustaining robust oscillations by constructing a minimal but…
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The dynamics of qubits coupled to a harmonic oscillator with time-periodic coupling is investigated in the framework of Floquet theory. This system can be used to model nonadiabatic phenomena that require a periodic modulation of the…
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The genetic repressilator circuit consists of three transcription factors, or repressors, which negatively regulate each other in a cyclic manner. This circuit was synthetically constructed on plasmids in {\it Escherichia coli} and was…
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