Dynamical thermal fluctuations

H. Noguchi and G. Gompper, Dynamics of fluid vesicles in shear flow effect of membrane viscosity and thermal fluctuations, Phys. Rev. E 72, 011901 (2005). 

Contrary to the accumulated knowledge on the static or quasi-static characteristics of thin lipid films at air/water interface, less attention has been paid to the dynamical or nonequilibrium behavior of the film. Studies on the dynamical characteristics of thin lipid films may be quite important, because the life phenomena are maintained under nonequilibrium conditions. According to the modern biochemistry [11,12], thin lipid membrane in living cells is not a rigid wall but a thermally fluctuating barrier with high fluidity. In the present section, we will show that thin lipid film exhibits the various interesting dynamical tc-A characteristics, such as the "overshoot hump", the "zero surface pressure", and the "flat plateau". 

The discussion of potential energy surfaces thus far has implicitly assumed that gas-phase reactions are in focus. For condensed-phase reaction dynamics, where thermal fluctuations have a significant and intrinsic role, the situation is much more unsettled. The reader is referred to the list of challenges to condensed-phase electronic structure theory recently made by Truhlar, who asks if condensed-phase electronic structure may be "... not only waiting for its Hylleraas, but even waiting for its Schrodinger [112] The development of liquid-phase dynamics will surely continue to be an intense area of research through the foreseeable future. 

These results raise the prospect of dynamics of nucleosomes in linker histone-free chromatin, that is, of a thermal fluctuation of nucleosomes between closed negative , open , and closed positive states identified in the minicircle system. If this equilibrium exists, an extra supercoiling constraint applied to the fiber should displace it in one direction or the other depending on the sign of that constraint, and this displacement should be reversible upon its removal. 

Dieluweit and Giesen [15] have presented STM studies on the dynamics of monolayer Au islands on Au(lOO) electrode surface in sulfuric acid solutions. The authors have given a quantitative description of the equdihrium shape of Au islands on Au(lOO) electrodes and of their thermal fluctuations around the equilibrium shape. Later, the same researchers [16] have applied STM to investigate a mono-layer of Au islands on Au(lOO) electrode in H2SO4 solutions. 

Thermal fluctuations are known to affect considerably the structure and other properties of biomolecules [30]. Recently, it was recognized that conformational changes in DNA can produce significant variations in the t-stacking of base pairs and thereby modulate the efficiency of charge transfer [31-33]. Thus, one has to employ a combination of molecular dynamics... 

For molecular desorption, laser spectroscopic studies of the desorbing molecule can give full internal state distributions, Df Ef, 6f, v, J, f M ), Ts), where f M ) is some distribution function describing the rotational orientation/alignment relative to the surface normal. For thermal desorption in non-activated systems, most atoms/molecules have only modest (but important) deviations from a thermal distribution at Ts. However, in associative desorption of systems with a barrier, the internal state distributions reveal intimate details of the dynamics. Associative desorption results from the slow thermal creation of a transition state, with a final thermal fluctuation causing desorption. Partitioning of the energy stored in V into... 

Let us first analyze the effect of the bias field on the magnetic SR in the framework of the linear response theory formulated for SR [96,97,99]. The main idea of the linear response treatment is a direct use of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, which expresses the thermal (fluctuational) power spectrum Qn(a>) of the magnetic moment of the system, namely, magnetic noise, through the imaginary component of its linear dynamic susceptibility ImX = to a weak probing ac field of an arbitrary frequency co as... 

However, the thermal fluctuations are not the only process that could perturb the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses through the atmosphere. Aerosol particles, like water droplets or dust, can have dimensions of several tens of microns, comparable with the filament diameter they could seriously harm the delicate dynamical balance required to propagate filaments. 

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