Speaker: Peter Leith Christiansen

Abstract: We propose a simple phenomenological model for describing the conformational dynamics of biopolymers via the nonlinearity induced buckling and collapse instability. We describe the buckling instability analitically, and then demonstrate its role in the folding dynamics of macromolecules through the three-dimensional numerical simulations of long semiflexible chains. Long-range interactions and next nearest neighbors interactions are taken into account.

MOBIL. Moving Breathers in Inhomogeneous Lattices. Workshop at Sevilla, 21-22 February 2003.