The effect of controllable optically-induced random anisotropic disorder on the magnetotransport in a two-dimensional electron system

AIP Conference Proceedings 772 (2005) 461-462

Authors:

GP Melhuish, AS Plaut, SH Simon, N Rocher, V Robbe, MC Holland, CR Stanley

Abstract:

We have studied the effect of optically-induced random, anisotropic disorder on the magnetoresistance of a two-dimensional electron gas by exposing the sample to an anisotropic laser speckle pattern. Changes in the amplitude of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations can be explained in terms of easy and hard conductivity paths, parallel and perpendicular to the long axis of the oval speckle grains, respectively. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.

Stick boundary conditions and rotational velocity auto-correlation functions for colloidal particles in a coarse-grained representation of the solvent

(2005)

Authors:

JT Padding, H Löwen, A Wysocki, AA Louis

Spin dynamics of the quasi two dimensional spin-1/2 quantum magnet Cs_2CuCl_4

(2005)

Authors:

Martin Y Veillette, Andrew JA James, Fabian HL Essler

Elastic correlations in nucleosomal DNA structure.

Phys Rev Lett 94:23 (2005) 238102

Authors:

Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee, Ramin Golestanian

Abstract:

The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core particle is studied using an elastic model that incorporates anisotropy in the bending energetics and twist-bend coupling. Using the experimentally determined structure of nucleosomal DNA [T. J. Richmond and C. A. Davey, Nature (London) 423, 145 (2003)], it is shown that elastic correlations exist between twist, roll, tilt, and stretching of DNA, as well as the distance between phosphate groups. The twist-bend coupling term is shown to be able to capture these correlations to a large extent, and a fit to the experimental data yields a new estimate of G = 25 nm for the value of the twist-bend coupling constant.

Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric distribution of reaction products.

Phys Rev Lett 94:22 (2005) 220801

Authors:

Ramin Golestanian, Tanniemola B Liverpool, Armand Ajdari

Abstract:

A simple model for the reaction-driven propulsion of a small device is proposed as a model for (part of) a molecular machine in aqueous media. The motion of the device is driven by an asymmetric distribution of reaction products. The propulsive velocity of the device is calculated as well as the scale of the velocity fluctuations. The effects of hydrodynamic flow as well as a number of different scenarios for the kinetics of the reaction are addressed.