DNA breathing dynamics: Analytic results for distribution functions of relevant Brownian functionals

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

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bandyopadhyay, Malay ^a   Gupta, Shamik ^b   Segal, Dvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BASE PAIRS; BROWNIAN FUNCTIONALS; BUBBLE DYNAMICS; BUBBLE SIZE; DNA BREATHING; FIRST-PASSAGE; FLEXIBLE TOOL; FOKKER PLANCK; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LANGEVIN EQUATION; NONTRIVIAL SCALING; PATH DECOMPOSITION; RANDOM WALK;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DNA; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 79953147889     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.031905     Document Type: Article

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