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A detailed analysis is carried to show that a Brownian motor driven by suitable double-well potentials randomly alternating with realistically chosen parameters can account for the experimentally evaluated relevant quantities.
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Buonocore, A., Caputo, L., Pirozzi, E., Ricciardi, L.M. (2007). Simulation of Myosin II Dynamics Modeled by a Pulsating Ratchet with Double-Well Potentials. In: Moreno Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2007. EUROCAST 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75867-9_20
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