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Nonlinear Excitations in Biomolecules: Les Houches School, May 30 to June 4, 1994

By J. A. Krumhansl (auth.) , M. Peyrard (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1995
ISBN
978-3-540-59250-1, 978-3-662-08994-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-08994-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13467665 bytes)
Series
Centre de Physique des Houches 2
Edition
1
Pages
427\428
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
AtomicDynamical Systems and Complexitygeneral;Cell Biology;Thermodynamics;Statistical PhMolecularOptical and Plasma Physics;Biophysics and Biologic

Description

In the last few years, hopes have emerged that simple concepts could perhaps explain the extremely complicated biomolecular processes which are known to a greater and greater accuracy thanks to the extraordinary progress of biology. In parallel, powerful methods in physics, especially nonlinearity and cooperative effects, have been developed. They apply especially to biological phenomena and can explain coherent excitations with remarkable properties. This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the theory of nonlinear excitations and solitons in a biological environment, and also to the structure and function of biomolecules as well as energy and charge transport in biophysics.

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