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Multiphoton Absorption of Myoglobin Nitric-Oxide complex: Relaxation by D-NEMD of a Stationary State

2012

ABSTRACT: The photodissociation and geminate recombination of nitric oxide in myoglobin, under continuous illumination, is modeled computationally. The relaxation of the photon energy into the protein matrix is also considered in a single simulation scheme that mimics a complete experimental setup. The dynamic approach to non-equilibrium molecular dynamics is used, starting from a steady state, to compute its relaxation to equilibrium. Simulations are conducted for the native form of sperm whale myoglobin and for two other mutants, V68W and L29F, illustrating a fair diversity of spatial and temporal geminate recombination processes. Energy flow to the heme and immediate protein environment …

myoglobin molecular dynamics simulations non equilibriumThermal fluctuationsMolecular Dynamics SimulationNitric OxideArticleAbsorptionchemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsComputational chemistryMaterials ChemistryPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryHemePhotonsSteady stateChemistryMyoglobinPhotodissociationTemperatureSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)Recombinant ProteinsSurfaces Coatings and FilmsProtein Structure TertiaryMyoglobinChemical physicsMutationRelaxation (physics)Stationary stateProtein Binding
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Noise-induced phenomena in transient dynamics of short and long Josephson junctions

2008

The investigation of nonlinear properties of Josephson junctions (JJs) is very important due to their broad applications in logic devices. Currently, all Josephson junctions are manufactured with the use of optical and electronic lithography, and they can always be considered as distributed. Moreover great interest recently has attracted, from theoretical and experimentally point of view, the investigation of the influence of thermal fluctuations in macroscopic quantum phenomena of short and long Josephson junctions. Particularly the role of the noise on the life time of the superconductive state has been subject of many investigations. In fact for some devices, as the rapid single flux qua…

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Fluctuaciones refractivas en la diabetes mellitus. Implicaciones en la praxis optométrica

2014

El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en cómo los niveles de glucosa en sangre en personas que padecen de diabetes mellitus, afecta a la fluctuación refractiva del ojo, y cuáles pueden ser las implicaciones en la praxis optométrica. Para lograr este objetivo, se ha llevado a cabo una investigación de tipo documental basada en la revisión y el análisis de la literatura científica general y específica existente sobre la temática. Se ha analizado cómo la glucemia afecta a las diferentes partes del ojo de una forma independiente, a corto y a largo plazo. El trabajo se ha estructurado en varios apartados donde se abordan las siguientes temáticas: relevancia de la enfermedad en el mundo, resumen …

optometristdiabetes mellitusUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASUNESCO::FÍSICAoptometristaanamnesisrefractive fluctuationfluctuación refractiva
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Event-shape and multiplicity dependence of freeze-out radii in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

2019

Two-particle correlations in high-energy collision experiments enable the extraction of particle source radii by using the Bose-Einstein enhancement of pion production at low relative momentum q ∝ 1/R. It was previously observed that in pp collisions at s√ = 7TeV the average pair transverse momentum kT range of such analyses is limited due to large background correlations which were attributed to mini-jet phenomena. To investigate this further, an event-shape dependent analysis of Bose-Einstein correlations for pion pairs is performed in this work. By categorizing the events by their transverse sphericity ST into spherical (ST > 0:7) and jet-like (ST < 0:3) events a method was developed tha…

particle correlations and fluctuationsNuclear and High Energy Physicsionithiukkasfysiikkaheavy ion experiments
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Unraveling the nature of universal dynamics in O(N) theories

2020

Many-body quantum systems far from equilibrium can exhibit universal scaling dynamics which defy standard classification schemes. Here, we disentangle the dominant excitations in the universal dynamics of highly occupied N-component scalar systems using unequal-time correlators. While previous equal-time studies have conjectured the infrared properties to be universal for all N, we clearly identify for the first time two fundamentally different phenomena relevant at different N. We find all N >= 3 to be indeed dominated by the same Lorentzian "large-N" peak, whereas N = 1 is characterized instead by a non-Lorentzian peak with different properties, and for N = 2, we see a mixture of two cont…

phase space methodsquasiparticlescollective excitationsnonequilibrium systemsbose gasesfluctuation theoremsscaling laws of complex systems
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PICOPHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS IN NOISY MARINE ENVIRONMENT

2012

We present a stochastic reaction-diffusion-taxis model to describe the picophytoplankton dynamics along a water column. The model, which is valid for poorly mixed waters, typical of the Mediterranean Sea, considers intraspecific competition of picophytoplankton for light and nutrients. Random fluctuations of environmental variables are taken into account by adding a source of multiplicative noise to the diffusion equation for the picophytoplankton biomass concentration, whose distribution along the water column shows a maximum at a certain depth. After converting our results into chlorophyll a concentrations, we compare theoretical distributions, obtained for different noise intensities, wi…

picophytoplankton distributionmarine environmentfluctuation phenomenarandom processepopulation dynamicSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)
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Review of proton and nuclear shape fluctuations at high energy

2020

Determining the inner structure of protons and nuclei in terms of their fundamental constituents has been one of the main tasks of high energy nuclear and particle physics experiments. This quest started as a mapping of the (average) parton densities as a function of longitudinal momentum fraction and resolution scale. Recently, the field has progressed to more differential imaging, where one important development is the description of the event-by-event quantum fluctuations in the wave function of the colliding hadron. In this Review, recent developments on the extraction of proton and nuclear transverse geometry with event-by-event fluctuations from collider experiments at high energy is …

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Experimental study of quantum fluctuations in titanium nanowires in highly resistive environment

2009

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Enhancing Metastability by Dissipation and Driving in an Asymmetric Bistable Quantum System.

2018

The stabilizing effect of quantum fluctuations on the escape process and the relaxation dynamics from a quantum metastable state are investigated. Specifically, the quantum dynamics of a multilevel bistable system coupled to a bosonic Ohmic thermal bath in strong dissipation regime is analyzed. The study is performed by a non-perturbative method based on the real-time path integral approach of the Feynman-Vernon influence functional. We consider a strongly asymmetric double well potential with and without a monochromatic external driving, and with an out-of-equilibrium initial condition. In the absence of driving we observe a nonmonotonic behavior of the escape time from the metastable regi…

quantum statistical methodsQuantum dynamicsquantum Zeno dynamicsGeneral Physics and AstronomyDouble-well potentiallcsh:AstrophysicsReview01 natural sciencesSettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della Materia010305 fluids & plasmasPhysics and Astronomy (all)functional analytical methodstunnelingMetastability0103 physical scienceslcsh:QB460-466Quantum system010306 general physicslcsh:ScienceQuantum statistical methodQuantum fluctuationQuantum tunnellingPhysicsCondensed matter physicsQuantum noiseFunctional analytical methodQuantum Zeno dynamiclcsh:QC1-999noise enhanced stabilitymetastable potentialdiscrete variable representationOpen systemopen systemsRelaxation (physics)lcsh:Qresonant activationCaldeira-Leggett modellcsh:Physicsquantum systems with finite Hilbert spaceEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)
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Adaptation to fluctuations in temperature by nine species of bacteria.

2017

Abstract Rapid environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous in the wild, yet majority of experimental studies mostly consider effects of slow fluctuations on organism. To test the evolutionary consequences of fast fluctuations, we conducted nine independent experimental evolution experiments with bacteria. Experimental conditions were same for all species, and we allowed them to evolve either in fluctuating temperature alternating rapidly between 20°C and 40°C or at constant 30°C temperature. After experimental evolution, we tested the performance of the clones in both rapid fluctuation and in constant environments (20°C, 30°C and 40°C). Results from experiments on these nine species were comb…

reaction normtolerance curvetemperature fluctuationexperimental evolutionOriginal ResearchEcology and evolution
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