{
  "id": "cond-mat/0004010",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-04-03T02:43:36.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-04-03T02:43:36.000Z",
  "title": "Energy Storage in a Hamiltonian System in Partial Contact with a Heat Bath",
  "authors": [
    "Naoko Nakagawa",
    "Kunihiko Kaneko"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn",
  "doi": "10.1143/JPSJ.69.1255",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "q-bio"
  ],
  "abstract": "To understand the mechanism allowing for the long-term storage of excess energy in proteins, we study a Hamiltonian system consisting of several coupled pendula in partial contact with a heat bath. It is found that energy storage is possible when the motion of each pendulum switches between oscillatory (vibrational) and rotational (phase-slip) modes. The storage time increases almost exponentially to the square root of the injected energy. The relevance of our mechanism to protein motors is discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-04-03T02:43:36.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hamiltonian system",
      "partial contact",
      "heat bath",
      "energy storage",
      "storage time increases"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Journal of the Physical Society of Japan",
      "year": 2000,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 69,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": 1255
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2000JPSJ...69.1255N"
    }
  }
}