Global Passivity in Microscopic Thermodynamics

New Microscopic Connections of Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics of protein folding: a microscopic view.

Statistical thermodynamics provides a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing, understanding and predicting the conformational properties of biomolecules. The central quantity is the potential of mean force or effective energy as a function of conformation, which consists of the intramolecular energy and the solvation free energy. The intramolecular energy can be reasonably described by mo...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Theorizing passivity

process essentially is conservative and, in some discipline, produces a regression to some mean—all articles in a particular journal resemble each other. As a result, there is little innovation in the forms and contents of thinking and theorizing. Despite being in special institutional positions (variously theorized as gatekeepers or obligatory points of passage), few editors appear to allow mo...

Conductance oscillations in mesoscopic rings: Microscopic versus global phase

The phase of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in mesoscopic diffusive metal rings in the presence of a magnetic field, can be modulated by the application of a dc-bias current Idc . We address the question of how a variation of Idc and hence of the microscopic phases of the electronic wave functions results in the observable ‘‘global’’ phase of the conductance oscillations. Whereas the first one can ...