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Protein Quantum Dynamics? (R. H. Austin1)

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The puzzling and possibly profound effect we want to examine in this chapter is one model for how chemical free energy may get trapped in a protein rather than flowing ergodically into the thermodynamic limit of equal occupation of all the degrees of freedom.

1 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

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  1. Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

    Hans Frauenfelder

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    Shirley S. Chan

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    Winnie S. Chan

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Frauenfelder, H. (2010). Protein Quantum Dynamics? (R. H. Austin1). In: Chan, S., Chan, W. (eds) The Physics of Proteins. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1044-8_16

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