The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems

Physics Today

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 43-48

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Liphardt, Jan ^a,b   Ritort, Felix ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Biophysics ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DNA; ENTROPY; ENZYMES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREE ENERGY; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLYSIS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RNA; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THEOREM PROVING;

GLASSY SYSTEMS; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR MACHINES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 23844508956     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2012462     Document Type: Review

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