FINITE-TEMPERATURE SIMULATIONS OF THE SEMICLASSICAL DAVYDOV MODEL

被引:25
作者
CRUZEIROHANSSON, L
机构
[1] Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, Malet St
来源
PHYSICA D | 1993年 / 68卷 / 01期
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10.1016/0167-2789(93)90030-5
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O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
The thermal stability of soliton solutions of the semiclassical Davydov model for energy transfer in proteins is investigated. Thermal averaging is made taking the degeneracy of the states into account. It is shown that Langelin dynamics leads to the same average states as the semiclassical Monte Carlo simulations, indicating that the former do constitute an accurate representation of the thermal bath in the semiclassical approximation.
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