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cond-mat.stat-mech1999★ 11 cited
Unzipping DNA - towards the first step of replication
Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
The opening of the Y-fork - the first step of DNA replication - is shown to be a critical phenomenon under an external force at one of its ends. From the results of an equivalent d…
cond-mat.stat-mech1999
Nonequilibrium Growth problems
Sutapa Mukherji, Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
We discuss the features of nonequilibrium growth problems, their scaling description and their differences from equilibrium problems. The emphasis is on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equ…
cond-mat.stat-mech1999★ 14 cited
Vicinal Surfaces, Fractional Statistics and Universality
Somendra M. Bhattacharjee, Sutapa Mukherji
We propose that the phases of all vicinal surfaces can be characterized by four fixed lines, in the renormalization group sense, in a three-dimensional space of coupling constants.…