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Title: Entropy associated with conformation and density fluctuations in biomolecular solutions

Authors: Fumio Hirata
Abstract: Microscopic formula to describe the entropy of biomolecular solutions are derived based on the Gibbs formula of entropy, and the generalized Langevin theory combined with the RISM/3D-RISM theory. Two formula are derived: one is concerned with the conformational fluctuation of a biomolecule, and the other with the density fluctuation of solvent around a solute. The formula derived for the entropy associated with the conformational fluctuation is where N is the number of atoms in the solute, and A is the determinant of the inverse of the variance-covariance matrix of conformational fluctuation. The formula for the entropy of solvent at a pair of positions around a solute is also derived to be, where n is the number of atoms in a solvent molecule, and B is essentially the determinant of the matrix of the density-pair-correlation functions. The entropy at a local position r may be obtained by integrating the expression by over the entire volume of the system.
The feasibility of the calculation to find the entropies is discussed.
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Cite as: arXiv:2303.00278 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:2303.00278v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

Submission history

From: Fumio Hirata [view email]
[v1] Wed, 1 Mar 2023 06:57:11 GMT (5365kb)

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