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E DelRe1, B Crosignani, P Di Porto
1Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Abstract:
Our theoretical and numerical investigation of the movement of an object that partitions a microtubule filled with small particles indicates that vibrations warranted by thermal equilibrium are reached only after a time that increases exponentially with the number of particles involved. This points to a basic mechanical process capable of breaching, on accessible time scales, the ultimate ergodic constraints that force randomness on bound microscale and nanoscale systems.
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