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cond-mat.soft2005★ 11 cited
Exploring the energy landscape of model proteins: a metric criterion for the determination of dynamical connectivity
Lorenzo Bongini, Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi +1
A method to reconstruct the energy landscape of small peptides is presented with reference to a 2d off--lattice model. The starting point is a statistical analysis of the configura…
cond-mat.stat-mech2005★ 4 cited
Breakdown of metastable step-flow growth on vicinal surfaces induced by nucleation
Daniele Vilone, Claudio Castellano, Paolo Politi
We consider the growth of a vicinal crystal surface in the presence of a step-edge barrier. For any value of the barrier strength, measured by the length l_es, nucleation of island…