Order of the phase transition in models of DNA thermal denaturation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 6-9

  Theodorakopoulos, Nikos ^a,b   Dauxois, Thierry ^b   Peyrard, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DISPLACEMENT DEPENDENT STIFFNESS CONSTANT; FINITE MELTING ENTROPY; MORSE ON SITE POTENTIAL; THERMAL DENATURATION;

DNA;

DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA DENATURATION; ENTROPY; HEAT; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; ENTROPY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034214822     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.6     Document Type: Article

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