3 papers
q-bio.QM2026
Chargaff's second parity rule and the kinetics of DNA replication
Pierre Gaspard
This paper presents the study of a DNA replication model grounded in the biochemical kinetics of DNA polymerases, which copy each DNA strand into a complementary strand, except for…
physics.gen-ph2025
From the thermodynamics of irreversible processes to dissipative structures and active matter
Pierre Gaspard
A historical perspective is presented on thermodynamics from the pioneering contributions by Carnot and Clausius to recent advances on active matter. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics…
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Dynamical response and time correlation functions in random quantum systems
Sudhir Ranjan Jain, Pierre Gaspard
Time-dependent response and correlation functions are studied in random quantum systems composed of infinitely many parts without mutual interaction and defined with statistically…