Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, July 95
| Proceedings of the Conference on Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, July 95 | |
Crystallography Department, Birkbeck College,
London, WC1E 7HX, U.K.
-helices in the form of a vibration excitation of the peptide
groups called amide I. In the Davydov model the amide I vibration
interacts with the phonon modes of the -helix and solitons can
form. An important, and still unanswered question is that of the thermal
lifetime of the Davydov soliton at biological temperatures. A brief summary
of the field will be presented, with particular emphasis on the behaviour
of the system at finite temperature. Results from quantum dynamics at finite
temperature will be shown.
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