Recovery of free energy branches in single molecule experiments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Junier, Ivan ^a   Mossa, Alessandro ^b   Manosas, Maria ^c   Ritort, Felix ^b,d  

^a Programme d'Ipigénomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

CO-EXISTING STATE; CONTROL PARAMETERS; FLUCTUATION RELATIONS; SINGLE-MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSITION POINTS; TWO STATE; WORK MEASUREMENTS;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 61349092330     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.070602     Document Type: Article

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