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Davydov's Soliton Revisited [electronic resource] : Self-Trapping of Vibrational Energy in Protein / edited by Peter L. Christiansen, Alwyn C. Scott

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Proceedings of a NATO ARW held in Thisted, Denmark, July 30-August 5, 1989
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New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
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1st ed. 1990.
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XIII, 531 pages : online resource
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Christiansen, Peter L., 1937-, Scott, Alwyn C., and SpringerLink (Online service)
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Section I: Low Temperature Theory -- 1. Solitons in Biology and Possible Role of Bisolitons in High-Tc Superconductivity -- 2. Quantum-Mechanical Derivation of the Davydov Equations for Multi-Quanta States -- 3. A Classical and Quantum Theory of Dynamical Self-Trapping in Nonlinear Systems and its Implication to Energy Transfer in Biological Systems -- 4. Vibron Solitons: A Semiclassical Approach -- 5. When Is A Soliton? -- 6. Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Davydov Model -- 7. Quantum Effects on the Davydov Soliton -- 8. Davydov Ansatz and Proper Solutions of Schrödinger Equation for Fröhlich Hamiltonian -- 9. Unitary Transformation and "Decoupling" of Excitons and Phonons in ACN -- 10. Soliton Generation in Infinite and Half-Infinite Molecular Chains -- 11. Soliton Dynamics in the Eilbeck-Lomdahl-Scott Model for Hydrogen-Bonded Polypeptides -- 12. Influence of Davydov Splitting on Solitons in Alpha-Helix -- 13. Interaction of an Extra Electron with Optical Phonons in Long Molecular Chains and Ionic Crystals -- 14. Self-Trapping in a Molecular Chain with Substrate Potential -- Section II: Exciton-Phonon Coupling -- 15. On the Calculations of the Exciton-Phonon Coupling Parameters in the Theory of Davydov Solitons -- 16. Quantum Chemical Calculations of Molecular Parameters Defining Davydov Soliton Dynamics in Polypeptides -- 17. On Ab Initio Estimations of the Nonlinearity Parameters in the Davydov Model -- Section III: Temperature Stability -- 18. The Quantum Theory of Solitons with Thermal Vibration Taken into Account -- 19. Davydov Solitons at 300 Kelvin: The Final Search -- 20. Influence of Heat Bath and Disorder on Davydov Solitons -- 21. Perturbation Estimate of the Lifetime of the Davydov Soliton at 300K -- 22. The Temperature Dependence of Exciton-Phonon Coupling in the Context of Davydov's Model; The Dynamic Damping of Soliton -- 23. Temperature Effects on the Davydov Soliton -- 24. Thermal Stability of the Davydov Soliton -- Section IV: Experimental Results -- 25. The Amide-I Band in Acetanilide: Physical Properties and Biological Suggestions -- 26. Incoherent Neutron Scattering and Infra-Red Measurements in Acetanilide and Derivatives -- 27. Spectroscopy of the Amide-I Modes of Acetanilide -- 28. Biomolecular Dynamics Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy -- 29. Molecular Crystals and Localized Vibrational States -- 30. Search for Remote Transfer of Vibrational Energy in Proteins -- Section V: Related Topics -- 31. Davydov's Soliton and Fröhlich's Condensation: Is There a Connection? -- 32. The Soliton and Bisoliton Input into the Elastic Scattering of Slow Neutrons -- 33. Dissociation of Davydov Solitons by Electromagnetic Waves -- 34. Vibrational Properties and Energy Transport in Acetanilide by Molecular Dynamics -- 35. On the Possible Role of Phonon-Modulated Tunneling in Excimer Formation -- 36. Excimers in Molecular Crystals: The Relaxation of a Nonlinear Oscillator -- 37. The Nonresonant DST Equation as a Model for McClare's Excimer -- Section VI: The Discrete Self-Trapping Equation -- 38. Introduction to the Discrete Self-Trapping Equation -- 39. Energy Localization in Small Biomolecules -- 40. Local Modes and Degenerate Perturbation Theory -- 41. Quantum and Classical Descriptions of Chaos in the DST Equation -- 42. Eigenvalue Statistics and Eigenstate Wigner Functions for the Discrete Self-Trapping Equation -- 43. The Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation: Nonadiabatic Effects, Finite Temperature Consequences, and Experimental Manifestations -- Participants -- Workshop Photograph.
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