Experimental Realizations of Integrable Reaction-Diffusion Processes in Biological and Chemical Systems
Abstract
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Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes may be presented in terms of integrable quantum chains and can be used to describe various biological and chemical systems. Exploiting the integrability of the models one finds in some cases good agreement between experimental and exact theoretical data. This is shown for the Rubinstein-Duke model for gel-electrophoresis of DNA, the asymmetric exclusion process as a model for the kinetics of biopolymerization and the coagulation-diffusion model for exciton dynamics on TMMC chains.
10 pages, LATEX. Invited lecture given at the $7^{th}$ Nankai Workshop on Symmetry, Statistical Mechanics Models, and Applications at Nankai University, Tianjin (August 1995). To appear in the Proceedings, eds. F.Y. Wu and M.L. Ge, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996)
10 pages, LATEX. Invited lecture given at the $7^{th}$ Nankai Workshop on Symmetry, Statistical Mechanics Models, and Applications at Nankai University, Tianjin (August 1995). To appear in the Proceedings, eds. F.Y. Wu and M.L. Ge, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996)