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Hamiltonian model of heat conductivity and Fourier law
Christian Gruber, Annick Lesne
We investigate the stationary nonequilibrium states of a quasi one-dimensional system of heavy particles whose interaction is mediated by purely elastic collisions with light parti…
Constructing and exploring wells of energy landscapes
Jean-Pierre Aubin, Annick Lesne
Landscape paradigm is ubiquitous in physics and other natural sciences, but it has to be supplemented with both quantitative and qualitatively meaningful tools for analyzing the to…
On the Second Law of thermodynamics and the piston problem
C. Gruber, S. Pache, A. Lesne
The piston problem is investigated in the case where the length of the cylinder is infinite (on both sides) and the ratio is a very small parameter, where is the mass of…
Two-time-scale relaxation towards thermal equilibrium of the enigmatic piston
C. Gruber, S. Pache, A. Lesne
We investigate the evolution of a system composed of non-interacting point particles of mass in a container divided into two chambers by a movable adiabatic piston of mass…
Adaptive elastic properties of chromatin fiber
Eli Ben-Haïm, Annick Lesne, Jean-Marc Victor
Chromatin is a complex of DNA and specific proteins forming an intermediary level of organization of eukaryotic genomes, between double-stranded DNA and chromosome. Within a generi…
Intercalation and buckling instability of DNA linker within locked chromatin fiber
Jean-Marc Victor, Eli Ben-Haïm, Annick Lesne
The chromatin fiber is a complex of DNA and specific proteins called histones forming the first structural level of organization of eukaryotic chromosomes. In tightly organized chr…