The 3-dimensional random walk with applications to overstretched DNA and the protein titin

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 6790-6800

  Van der Straeten, Erik ^a   Naudts, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Random walk; Single molecules; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; PERSISTENT RANDOM WALK; POLYMER STRETCHING EXPERIMENTS; RANDOM WALK; SINGLE MOLECULE; STATIC FORCES; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 53749087902     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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