Davydovs Soliton Revisited Self-Trapping of Vibrational Energy in Protein [Paperback]

Proceedings of a NATO ARW held in Thisted, Denmark, July 30-August 5, 1989Section I: Low Temperature Theory.- 1. Solitons in Biology and Possible Role of Bisolitons in High-Tc Superconductivity.- 2. Quantum-Mechanical Derivation of the Davydov Equations for Multi-Quanta States.- 3. A Classical and Quantum Theory of Dynamical Self-Trapping in Nonlinear Systems and its Implication to Energy Transfer in Biological Systems.- 4. Vibron Solitons: A Semiclassical Approach.- 5. When Is A Soliton?.- 6. Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Davydov Model.- 7. Quantum Effects on the Davydov Soliton.- 8. Davydov Ansatz and Proper Solutions of Schr?dinger Equation for Fr?hlich Hamiltonian.- 9. Unitary Transformation and Decoupling of Excitons and Phonons in ACN.- 10. Soliton Generation in Infinite and Half-Infinite Molecular Chains.- 11. Soliton Dynamics in the Eilbeck-Lomdahl-Scott Model for Hydrogen-Bonded Polypeptides.- 12. Influence of Davydov Splitting on Solitons in Alpha-Helix.- 13. Interaction of an Extra Electron with Optical Phonons in Long Molecular Chains and Ionic Crystals.- 14. Self-Trapping in a Molecular Chain with Substrate Potential.- Section II: Exciton-Phonon Coupling.- 15. On the Calculations of the Exciton-Phonon Coupling Parameters in the Theory of Davydov Solitons.- 16. Quantum Chemical Calculations of Molecular Parameters Defining Davydov Soliton Dynamics in Polypeptides.- 17. On Ab Initio Estimations of the Nonlinearity Parameters in the Davydov Model.- Section III: Temperature Stability.- 18. The Quantum Theory of Solitons with Thermal Vibration Taken into Account.- 19. Davydov Solitons at 300 Kelvin: The Final Search.- 20. Influence of Heat Bath and Disorder on Davydov Solitons.- 21. Perturbation Estimate of the Lifetime of the Davydov Soliton at 300K.- 22. The Temperature Dependence of Exciton-Phonon Coupling in the Context of Davydovs Model; The Dynamic Damping of Soliton.- 23. Temperature Effects on the Davydov Soliton.- 24. Thermal Stability lƒ;