511 research outputs found
The September 5, 2004 off the Kii Peninsula earthquakes as a composition of bending and collision
Collapsing lattice animals and lattice trees in two dimensions
We present high statistics simulations of weighted lattice bond animals and
lattice trees on the square lattice, with fugacities for each non-bonded
contact and for each bond between two neighbouring monomers. The simulations
are performed using a newly developed sequential sampling method with
resampling, very similar to the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth method (PERM) used
for linear chain polymers. We determine with high precision the line of second
order transitions from an extended to a collapsed phase in the resulting
2-dimensional phase diagram. This line includes critical bond percolation as a
multicritical point, and we verify that this point divides the line into two
different universality classes. One of them corresponds to the collapse driven
by contacts and includes the collapse of (weakly embeddable) trees, but the
other is {\it not yet} bond driven and does not contain the Derrida-Herrmann
model as special point. Instead it ends at a multicritical point where a
transition line between two collapsed phases (one bond-driven and the other
contact-driven) sparks off. The Derrida-Herrmann model is representative for
the bond driven collapse, which then forms the fourth universality class on the
transition line (collapsing trees, critical percolation, intermediate regime,
and Derrida-Herrmann). We obtain very precise estimates for all critical
exponents for collapsing trees. It is already harder to estimate the critical
exponents for the intermediate regime. Finally, it is very difficult to obtain
with our method good estimates of the critical parameters of the
Derrida-Herrmann universality class. As regards the bond-driven to
contact-driven transition in the collapsed phase, we have some evidence for its
existence and rough location, but no precise estimates of critical exponents.Comment: 11 pages, 16 figures, 1 tabl
Monte Carlo Procedure for Protein Design
A new method for sequence optimization in protein models is presented. The
approach, which has inherited its basic philosophy from recent work by Deutsch
and Kurosky [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 323 (1996)] by maximizing conditional
probabilities rather than minimizing energy functions, is based upon a novel
and very efficient multisequence Monte Carlo scheme. By construction, the
method ensures that the designed sequences represent good folders
thermodynamically. A bootstrap procedure for the sequence space search is
devised making very large chains feasible. The algorithm is successfully
explored on the two-dimensional HP model with chain lengths N=16, 18 and 32.Comment: 7 pages LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures; minor change
Design Equation: A Novel Approach to Heteropolymer Design
A novel approach to heteropolymer design is proposed. It is based on the
criterion by Kurosky and Deutsch, with which the probability of a target
conformation in a conformation space is maximized at low but finite
temperature. The key feature of the proposed approach is the use of soft spins
(fuzzy monomers) that leads to a design equation, which is an analog of the
Boltzmann machine learning equation in the design problem. We implement an
algorithm based on the design equation for the generalized HP model on the
3x3x3 cubic lattice and check its performance.Comment: 7 pages, 3 tables, 1 figures, uses jpsj.sty, jpsjbs1.sty, epsf.sty,
Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Protein design in a lattice model of hydrophobic and polar amino acids
A general strategy is described for finding which amino acid sequences have
native states in a desired conformation (inverse design). The approach is used
to design sequences of 48 hydrophobic and polar aminoacids on three-dimensional
lattice structures. Previous studies employing a sequence-space Monte-Carlo
technique resulted in the successful design of one sequence in ten attempts.
The present work also entails the exploration of conformations that compete
significantly with the target structure for being its ground state. The design
procedure is successful in all the ten cases.Comment: RevTeX, 12 pages, 1 figur
Folding, Design and Determination of Interaction Potentials Using Off-Lattice Dynamics of Model Heteropolymers
We present the results of a self-consistent, unified molecular dynamics study
of simple model heteropolymers in the continuum with emphasis on folding,
sequence design and the determination of the interaction parameters of the
effective potential between the amino acids from the knowledge of the native
states of the designed sequences.Comment: 8 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses RevTeX. Submitted to Physical
Review Letter
Steric constraints in model proteins
A simple lattice model for proteins that allows for distinct sizes of the
amino acids is presented. The model is found to lead to a significant number of
conformations that are the unique ground state of one or more sequences or
encodable. Furthermore, several of the encodable structures are highly
designable and are the non-degenerate ground state of several sequences. Even
though the native state conformations are typically compact, not all compact
conformations are encodable. The incorporation of the hydrophobic and polar
nature of amino acids further enhances the attractive features of the model.Comment: RevTex, 5 pages, 3 postscript figure
Equilibrium and dynamical properties of the ANNNI chain at the multiphase point
We study the equilibrium and dynamical properties of the ANNNI (axial
next-nearest-neighbor Ising) chain at the multiphase point. An interesting
property of the system is the macroscopic degeneracy of the ground state
leading to finite zero-temperature entropy. In our equilibrium study we
consider the effect of softening the spins. We show that the degeneracy of the
ground state is lifted and there is a qualitative change in the low temperature
behaviour of the system with a well defined low temperature peak of the
specific heat that carries the thermodynamic ``weight'' of the ground state
entropy. In our study of the dynamical properties, the stochastic Kawasaki
dynamics is considered. The Fokker-Planck operator for the process corresponds
to a quantum spin Hamiltonian similar to the Heisenberg ferromagnet but with
constraints on allowed states. This leads to a number of differences in its
properties which are obtained through exact numerical diagonalization,
simulations and by obtaining various analytic bounds.Comment: 9 pages, RevTex, 6 figures (To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Hidden magnetic transitions in thermoelectric layered cobaltite, [CaCoO][CoO]
A positive muon spin rotation and relaxation (SR) experiment on
[CaCoO][CoO], ({\sl i.e.}, CaCoO, a layered
thermoelectric cobaltite) indicates the existence of two magnetic transitions
at 100 K and 400 - 600 K; the former is a transition from a paramagnetic
state to an incommensurate ({\sf IC}) spin density wave ({\sf SDW}) state. The
anisotropic behavior of zero-field SR spectra at 5 K suggests that the
{\sf IC-SDW} propagates in the - plane, with oscillating moments directed
along the c-axis; also the {\sf IC-SDW} is found to exist not in the
[CaCoO] subsystem but in the [CoO] subsystem. In addition, it is
found that the long-range {\sf IC-SDW} order completes below 30 K,
whereas the short-range order appears below 100 K. The latter transition is
interpreted as a gradual change in the spin state of Co ions %% at temperatures
above 400 K. These two magnetic transitions detected by SR are found to
correlate closely with the transport properties of
[CaCoO][CoO].Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures. to be appeared in Phys. Rev.
Two dimensional self-avoiding walk with hydrogen-like bonding: Phase diagram and critical behaviour
The phase diagram for a two-dimensional self-avoiding walk model on the
square lattice incorporating attractive short-ranged interactions between
parallel sections of walk is derived using numerical transfer matrix
techniques. The model displays a collapse transition. In contrast to the
standard -point model, the transition is first order. The phase diagram
in the full fugacity-temperature plane displays an additional transition line,
when compared to the -point model, as well as a critical transition at
finite temperature in the hamiltonian walk limit.Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures. To appear in Journal of Physics
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