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physics.chem-ph2026
Speed limits on biomolecular processes from fundamental physical constants
Dmitrii E Makarov
Many of the timescales of life have speed limits set by quantum-mechanical constraints along with non-fundamental quantities, such as the temperature of the environment, which are…
physics.chem-ph2025
What the Boltzmann money game teaches us about statistical mechanics (and maybe economics)
Dmitrii E. Makarov
This note explains why a large class of fair, or reversible "money games", i.e., stochastic models of wealth redistribution among agents, lead to steady states described by canonic…
physics.chem-ph2024
The significance of fuzzy boundaries of the barrier regions in single-molecule measurements of failed barrier crossing attempts
Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, Dmitrii E. Makarov
A recent experimental study reports on measuring the temporal duration and the spatial extent of failed attempts to cross an activation barrier (i.e., "loops") for a folding transi…