Controlling cooperativity of a metastable open system coupled weakly to a noisy environment  

作　　者：Victor I.Teslenko Oleksiy L.Kapitanchuk Zhao Yang 

机构地区：[1]Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics,National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [2]Division of Materials Science,Nanyang Technological University

出　　处：《Chinese Physics B》2015年第2期501-512,共12页中国物理B（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine(Grant No.0110U007542);the National Research Foundation of Singapore through the Competitive Research Programme(Grant No.NRF-CRP5-2009-04)

摘　　要：The notion of cooperativity comprises a specific characteristic of a multipartite system concerning its ability to demonstrate a sigmoidal-type response of varying sensitivities to input stimuli in transitions between states under controlled conditions.From a statistical physics viewpoint,in this work we attempt to describe the cooperativity by the stability of a metastable open system with respect to irreversibility.To treat the evolution of a system weakly coupled to the environment in a kinetic framework,we consider two fluctuating energy levels of different dimensionalities,initial population of one level,reversible transitions of population between the levels,and irreversible depopulation of another level.An average is made over level fluctuations and environment vibrations so that an inter-level transition rate can be obtained accounting for the influences of external control on level position and dimensionality.It is found that the cooperativity of the two-level system is bounded approximately between 0.736 and unity,with the lower bound indicating worsening system stability.The notion of cooperativity comprises a specific characteristic of a multipartite system concerning its ability to demonstrate a sigmoidal-type response of varying sensitivities to input stimuli in transitions between states under controlled conditions.From a statistical physics viewpoint,in this work we attempt to describe the cooperativity by the stability of a metastable open system with respect to irreversibility.To treat the evolution of a system weakly coupled to the environment in a kinetic framework,we consider two fluctuating energy levels of different dimensionalities,initial population of one level,reversible transitions of population between the levels,and irreversible depopulation of another level.An average is made over level fluctuations and environment vibrations so that an inter-level transition rate can be obtained accounting for the influences of external control on level position and dimensionality.It is found that the cooperativity of the two-level system is bounded approximately between 0.736 and unity,with the lower bound indicating worsening system stability.

关 键 词：metastable open system nonstationary kinetic processes IRREVERSIBILITY energy fluctuations 

分 类 号：O415.2[理学—理论物理]