Relaxation timescales for conformational substates in disordered polymers

✍ Scribed by Ariel Fernández

• Book ID: 101481857
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 271 KB
• Volume: 504
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-3804
• DOI: 10.1002/andp.19925040111

✦ Synopsis

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.