Conformational barriers in low-temperature proteins and glasses
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (2) , 660-662
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.660
Abstract
We measured the distribution of conformational barriers in a chromoprotein by using a spectral hole as a probe. The results can be interpreted by a superposition of glasslike states and a discrete feature with a Gaussian distribution.Keywords
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