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Fast Tree Search for Enumeration of a Lattice Model of Protein Folding
Using a fast tree-searching algorithm and a Pentium cluster, we enumerated
all the sequences and compact conformations (structures) for a protein folding
model on a cubic lattice of size . We used two types of amino
acids -- hydrophobic (H) and polar (P) -- to make up the sequences, so there
were different sequences. The total number
of distinct structures was 84,731,192. We made use of a simple solvation model
in which the energy of a sequence folded into a structure is minus the number
of hydrophobic amino acids in the ``core'' of the structure. For every
sequence, we found its ground state or ground states, i.e., the structure or
structures for which its energy is lowest. About 0.3% of the sequences have a
unique ground state. The number of structures that are unique ground states of
at least one sequence is 2,662,050, about 3% of the total number of structures.
However, these ``designable'' structures differ drastically in their
designability, defined as the number of sequences whose unique ground state is
that structure. To understand this variation in designability, we studied the
distribution of structures in a high dimensional space in which each structure
is represented by a string of 1's and 0's, denoting core and surface sites,
respectively.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure
Charge Blinking Statistics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Revealed by Carbon Nanotube Single Charge Sensors
We demonstrate the
relation between the optical blinking of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals
(NCs) and their electrical charge blinking for which we provide the
first experimental observation of power-law statistics. To show this,
we harness the performance of CdSe/ZnS NCs coupled with carbon nanotube
field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), which act as single charge-sensitive
electrometers with submillisecond time resolution, at room temperature.
A random telegraph signal (RTS) associated with the NC single-trap
charging is observed and exhibits power-law temporal statistics (τ<sup>–α</sup>, with α in the range of ∼1–3),
and a Lorentzian current noise power spectrum with a well-defined
1/<i>f</i><sup>2</sup> corner. The spectroscopic analysis
of the NC–CNTFET devices is consistent with the charging of
NC defect states with a charging energy of <i>E</i><sub>c</sub> ≥ 200 meV. These results pave the way for a deeper
understanding of the physics and technology of nanocrystal-based optoelectronic
devices