Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics Application to Vibrational Dynamics of Protein Folding
arXiv:cond-mat/0703408 · doi:10.1007/s10773-007-9407-1
Abstract
The vibrational dynamics of protein folding is analyzed in the framework of Tsallis thermostatistics. The generalized partition functions, internal energies, free energies and temperature factor (or Debye-Waller factor) are calculated. It has also been observed that the temperature factor is dependent on the non-extensive parameter q which behaves like a scale parameter in the harmonic oscillator model. As , we also show that these approximations agree with the result of Gaussian network model.
8 pages, 2 figures