Freezing Transition of Compact Polyampholytes.
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Vijay S. Pande†, Alexander Yu. Grosberg‡, Chris Joerg§, Mehran Kardar, and Toyoichi Tanaka Department of Physics and Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA †Present address: Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA ‡On leave from: Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117977, Russia §Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 77 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996