Life is characterized by a myriad of complex dynamic processes allowing organisms to grow,
reproduce, and evolve. Physical approaches for describing systems out of thermodynamic …

We review the concept of dynamical ensembles in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics as
specified from an action functional or Lagrangian on spacetime. There, under local detailed …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

We study the generalized free energy of the five dimensional charged Gauss-Bonnet anti–
de Sitter (AdS) black holes in the grand canonical ensemble by treating the black hole …

A bstract We study the generalized free energy of the dyonic AdS black hole in an ensemble
with varying electric charge q E and fixed magnetic charge q M. When we adjust the …

Instanton theory provides a simple description of a quantum tunnelling process in terms of
an optimal tunnelling pathway. The theory is rigorously based on quantum mechanics …

We have performed molecular dynamics simulations on a set of nine unfolded
conformations of the fastest-folding protein yet discovered, a variant of the villin headpiece …

Theory and experiment have provided answers to many of the fundamental questions of
protein folding; a remaining challenge is an accurate, high-resolution picture of folding …

Since the earliest explorations of quantum mechanics, it has been a topic of great interest
that quantum tunneling allows particles to penetrate classically insurmountable barriers …

Coupling of mechanical forces and chemical transformations is central to the biophysics of
molecular machines, polymer chemistry, fracture mechanics, tribology, and other disciplines …