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Recent numerical studies of Davydov solitons at physiological temperature are in disagreement with a previous theoretical analysis by Davydov. It is suggested that the disagreement arises because the specific assumption concerning the introduction of temperature in the numerical experiments leads to a mechanism for soliton decay (a soliton-exciton transition) that is forbidden by the Franck-Condon principle. The temperature dependence of the Davydov soliton must be governed by other mechanisms.
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Scott, A.C. (1987). On Davydov Solitons at 310 K. In: Barrett, T.W., Pohl, H.A. (eds) Energy Transfer Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71867-0_15
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