Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Topology, landscapes, and biomolecular energy transport

  • Justin E. Elenewski,
  • Kirill A. Velizhanin,
  • Michael Zwolak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12700-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Understanding vibrational energy transfer in macromolecules has been challenging to both theory and experiment. Here the authors use non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to reveal the relationship between heat transport in a model peptide, emergent nonlinearity, and the underlying free energy landscape.