QUANTUM AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON DAVYDOV SOLITON DYNAMICS - AVERAGED HAMILTONIAN METHOD

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FORNER, W
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[1] Lab. of Nat. Found. for Cancer Res., Friedrich-Alexander-Univ., Erlangen
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10.1088/0953-8984/4/8/007
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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The dynamics of Davydov solitons within the so-called (D1) state which allows quantum effects in the lattice are studied at physiological temperatures using Davydov's averaged Hamiltonian method. For this purpose the Euler-Lagrange method is used to obtain approximate equations of motion from a thermally averaged Hamiltonian. Within (D1) dynamics at T = 0 K and for parameter values appropriate for proteins, no solitons are found. It is demonstrated that temperature effects at 300 K shift the stability window for travelling solitons into regions of the parameter space which might be realistic for proteins.
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