First-order disorder-to-order transition in an isolated homopolymer mode

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2822-2825

  Zhou, Yaoqi ^a   Hall, Carol K ^b   Karplus, Martin ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

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EID: 0001351693     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2822     Document Type: Article

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