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Fröhlich's condensation in a biological membrane viewed as a Davydov soliton

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A model Hamiltonian is postulated for a biological membrane involving phospholipid tails and heads accounting for the presence of dielectrically-active material. It is subsequently demonstrated that under specific conditions, Bose condensation of dipolar oscillations of the head groups may take place in support of Fröhlich's earlier conjecture. A new effect is found here that this condensation phenomenon can be interpreted as the emergence of a Davydov soliton in the momentum space for dipole oscillations.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 6300, Giessen, W. Germany

    H. Bolterauer

  2. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2J1, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    J. A. Tuszyński

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Bolterauer, H., Tuszyński, J.A. Fröhlich's condensation in a biological membrane viewed as a Davydov soliton. J Biol Phys 17, 41–50 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393325

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