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Because the constant extension ensemble of single chain molecule is not always equivalent with constant force ensemble, a model of double-stranded conformations, as in RNA molecules and $\beta$-sheets in proteins, with fixed extension…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Fei Liu , Luru Dai , Tao Xu , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

Increasing shares of fluctuating renewable energy sources induce higher and higher power flow variability at the transmission level. The question arises as to what extent existing networks can absorb additional fluctuating power injection…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Markus Schläpfer , Pierluigi Mancarella

The dynamics of a heteropolymer chain in solution is studied in the limit of long chain length. Using functional integral representation we derive an effective equation of motion, in which the heterogeneity of the chain manifests itself as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jiunn-Ren Roan , E. I. Shakhnovich

Studies of the thermodynamics of complex coacervation of pairs of symmetric, strongly ionizable, oppositely charged polyelectrolyte chains are abundant. To generalize such understanding to asymmetric chain lengths and variable ionizability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-07 Souradeep Ghosh , Soumik Mitra , Arindam Kundagrami

The fluctuation theorem is a pivotal result of statistical physics. It quantifies the probability of observing fluctuations which are in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. More specifically, it quantifies the ratio of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-26 M. Belushkin , R. Livi , G. Foffi

Entanglement fluctuations associated with Schr\"{o}dinger evolution of wavefunctions offer a unique perspective on various fundamental issues ranging from quantum thermalization to state preparation in quantum devices. Very recently, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Cunzhong Lou , Chushun Tian , Zhixing Zou , Tao Shi , Lih-King Lim

We consider the drift of a polymer chain in a disordered medium, which is caused by a constant force applied to the one end of the polymer, under neglecting the thermal fluctuations. In the lowest order of the perturbation theory we have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Semjon Stepanow , Michael Schulz

Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aram Z. Mekjian

The article provides a unitary and complete solution to the fluctuation-dissipation relations for particle hydromechanics in a generic fluid, accounting for the hydrodynamic fluid-particle interactions (including arbitrary memory kernels in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Massimiliano Giona , Giuseppe Procopio , Chiara Pezzotti

Solutions of semiflexible polymers confined by repulsive planar walls are studied by density functional theory and Molecular Dynamics simulations, to clarify the competition between the chain alignment favored by the wall and the depletion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Sergei A. Egorov , Andrey Milchev , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder

Thermodynamic length is a path function that generalizes the notion of length to the surface of thermodynamic states. Here, we show how to measure thermodynamic length in far-from-equilibrium single molecule experiments using the work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Edward H. Feng , Gavin E. Crooks

Chemical and biological networks can describe a wide variety of processes, from gene regulatory networks to biochemical oscillations. Modeled by chemical master equations, these processes are inherently stochastic, as fluctuations dominate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Luis Pedro García-Pintos

Fluctuation spectra of fluid compound membrane systems are calculated. The systems addressed contain two (or more) almost parallel membranes that are connected by harmonic tethers or by a continuous, harmonic confining potential.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-08 Rolf-Juergen Merath , Udo Seifert

When a flexible polymer is sucked into a localized small hole, the chain can initially respond only locally and the sequential nonequilibrium processes follow in line with the propagation of the tensile force along the chain backbone. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Takahiro Sakaue

We study how the thermodynamic properties of the Triangular Plaquette Model (TPM) are influenced by the addition of extra interactions. The thermodynamics of the original TPM is trivial, while its dynamics is glassy, as usual in Kinetically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-03-23 Silvio Franz , Giacomo Gradenigo , Stefano Spigler

Self-diffusion of a polymer chain in a melt is studied by Monte Carlo simulations of the bond fluctuation model, where only the excluded volume interaction is taken into account. Polymer chains, each of which consists of $N$ segments, are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Katsumi Hagita , Hiroshi Takano

This thesis investigates the interactions of different degrees of freedom of one joint system within the theory of stochastic thermodynamics. First, a comprehensive introduction to the subjects of stochastic processes, information theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-31 Jannik Ehrich

The joint statistical properties of two free energies computed at two different temperatures in {\it the same sample} of $(1+1)$ directed polymers is studied in terms of the replica technique. The scaling dependence of the reduced free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Victor Dotsenko

The mechanical properties of polymer knots under stretching in a bad or good solvent are investigated by applying a given force $F$ to a point of the knot while keeping another point fixed. The Monte Carlo sampling of the polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-15 Yani Zhao , Franco Ferrari

An applied tension force changes the equilibrium conformations of a polymer chain tethered to a planar substrate and thus affects the adsorption transition as well as the coil-globule and crystallization transitions. Conversely, solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann , Kurt Binder