Is Heteropolymer Freezing Well Described by the Random Energy Model?

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23 April 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9604147

Abstract

It is widely held that the Random Energy Model (REM) describes the freezing transition of a variety of types of heteropolymers. We demonstrate that the hallmark property of REM, statistical independence of the energies of states over disorder, is violated in different ways for models commonly employed in heteropolymer freezing studies. The implications for proteins are also discussed.

Keywords

STATISTICAL INDEPENDENCE
HETEROPOLYMER FREEZING
RANDOM ENERGY MODEL
FREEZING WELL
WIDELY HELD
REM

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Version 1, 1996-04-23, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 76 (21), 3987.

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