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We perform a generalized-ensemble simulation of a small peptide taking the interactions among all atoms into account. From this simulation we obtain thermodynamic quantities over a wide range of temperatures. In particular, we show that the…
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It is important to understand the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. It is obvious that the interaction with large energy scale is responsible for high critical temperature $T_c$. The Coulomb interaction is one of candidates…
We theoretically study the conductivity in arrays of metallic grains due to the variable-range multiple cotunneling of electrons with short-range (screened) Coulomb interaction. The system is supposed to be coupled to random stray charges…
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Structure and thermodynamics of crystalline membranes are characterized by the long wavelength behavior of the normal-normal correlation function G(q). We calculate G(q) by Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulations for a quasi-harmonic…
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We consider effects of Coulomb interaction in a granular normal metal at not very low temperatures suppressing weak localization effects. In this limit calculations with the initial electron Hamiltonian are reduced to integrations over a…
The critical incompatibility of polymers with different compositions scales inversely with their length. For instance, a mixture of A and B homopolymers of length $N$ segregates at $\chi_{AB}^{cr} = 2/N$. But what if the difference between…
Intermediate energy scale physics plays a very important role in non-equilibrium dynamics of quasi-low dimensional cold atom systems. In this article we obtain the universal scaling relations for the generalized reflection coefficient,…
Herein, we describe new methods to produce colloidal particle chains of three stiffness regimes that can be observed on a single-particle level, that is, on the level of the monomers that make up the chain; the chains can even be observed…
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The glass transition temperature and its connection to statistical properties of confined and free-standing polymer films of varying thickness containing unentangled to highly entangled bead-spring chains are studied by molecular dynamics…