Looking into DNA breathing dynamics via quantum physics

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Lian Ao ^a   Wu, Stephen S ^b   Segal, Dvira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATIONS; APPROXIMATE METHODS; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BUBBLE DYNAMICS; BUBBLE PROPERTIES; DINGER EQUATION; DNA BREATHING; EIGENEQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LIQUID DROP MODEL; MEMORY EFFECTS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT MODULATION; TIME-DEPENDENT PERTURBATION;

DNA; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUANTUM THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 67650918552     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061901     Document Type: Article

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