Equilibrium phase transitions may be defined as nonanalytic points of thermodynamic
functions, eg, of the canonical free energy. Given a certain physical system, it is of interest to …

Phase transitions are among the most impressive phenomena occurring in nature. They are
an example of emergent behavior, ie, of collective properties having no direct counterpart in …

Despite its small size, chicken villin headpiece subdomain HP36 folds into the native
structure with a stable hydrophobic core within several microseconds. How such a small …

The microcanonical analysis is shown to be a powerful tool to characterize the protein
folding transition and to neatly distinguish between good and bad folders. An off-lattice …

In this paper, a geometrical and thermodynamical analysis of the global properties of the
potential energy landscape of a minimalistic model of a polypeptide is presented. The global …

We use a topological approach to describe the frustration-and field-induced phase
transitions exhibited by the infinite-range XY model on the AB 2 chain, including …

Multifractal properties of the energy time series of short α-helix structures, specifically from a
polyalanine family, are investigated through the MF-DFA technique (multifractal detrended …

Knowledge of a protein's three‐dimensional native structure is vital in determining its
chemical properties and functionality. However, experimental methods to determine …

The origin of protein folding thermodynamics is examined in terms of the energy landscape,
employing an off-lattice protein model with scaled non-native attractions, which is …

In systems characterized by a rough potential-energy landscape, local energetic minima and
saddles define a network of metastable states whose topology strongly influences the …