Energy landscapes, supergraphs, and “folding funnels” in spin systems

Piotr Garstecki, Trinh Xuan Hoang, and Marek Cieplak
Phys. Rev. E 60, 3219 – Published 1 September 1999
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Abstract

Dynamical connectivity graphs, which describe dynamical transition rates between local energy minima of a system, can be displayed against the background of a disconnectivity graph which represents the energy landscape of the system. The resulting supergraph describes both dynamics and statics of the system in a unified coarse-grained sense. We give examples of the supergraphs for several two-dimensional spin and protein-related systems. We demonstrate that disordered ferromagnets have supergraphs akin to those of model proteins whereas spin glasses behave like random sequences of amino acids that fold badly.

  • Received 30 March 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.60.3219

©1999 American Physical Society

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Piotr Garstecki1, Trinh Xuan Hoang2, and Marek Cieplak2

  • 1Institute of Chemical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
  • 2Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Vol. 60, Iss. 3 — September 1999

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