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Measurement of work in single-molecule pulling experiments
(AIP Publishing, 2009)
A main goal of single-molecule experiments is to evaluate equilibrium free energy differences by applying fluctuation relations to repeated work measurements along irreversible processes. We quantify ...
Dynamic force spectroscopy of DNA hairpins: II. Irreversibility and dissipation
(IOP Publishing, 2009)
We investigate irreversibility and dissipation in single molecules that cooperatively fold/unfold in a two-state manner under the action of mechanical force. We apply path thermodynamics to derive ...
Dynamic force spectroscopy of DNA hairpins: I. Force kinetics and free energy landscapes
(IOP Publishing, 2009)
We investigate the thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA hairpins that fold/unfold under the action of applied mechanical force. We introduce the concept of the molecular free energy landscape and derive ...
Work distributions in the T = 0 random field Ising model
(American Physical Society, 2008)
We perform a numerical study of the three-dimensional random-field Ising model at T= 0. We compare work distributions along metastable trajectories obtained with the single-spin flip dynamics with the ...