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The puzzling and possibly profound effect we want to examine in this chapter is one model for how chemical free energy may get trapped in a protein rather than flowing ergodically into the thermodynamic limit of equal occupation of all the degrees of freedom.
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Frauenfelder, H. (2010). Protein Quantum Dynamics? (R. H. Austin1). In: Chan, S., Chan, W. (eds) The Physics of Proteins. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1044-8_16
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