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Relaxation timescales for conformational substates in disordered polymers
Author(s) -
Fernández Ariel
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/andp.19925040111
Subject(s) - relaxation (psychology) , scaling , statistical physics , uncorrelated , monte carlo method , folding (dsp implementation) , scaling law , physics , polymer , condensed matter physics , chemical physics , thermodynamics , nuclear magnetic resonance , electrical engineering , engineering , psychology , social psychology , statistics , geometry , mathematics
Abstract We study the kinetics of interconversion of conformational substates in RNA folding by means of a Monte‐Carlo simulation. We establish a scaling law relating the size of the barriers with the length of a random uncorrelated RNA chain. The way the relaxation timescales diverge in the thermodynamic limit coincides with the behavior of nonergodic relaxation timescales for spin glasses.