Non-Exponential Relaxation Time Scales in Disordered Systems: an Application to Protein Dynamics

Abstract

We study the dynamics of an heteropolymeric chain relaxing toward a new equilibrium configuration after the action of an external perturbation. We compare the results from Monte Carlo simulations with the results of a Langevin normal mode decomposition. We discuss, for sake of comparison, the case of an ordered homopolymeric chain.

Comments: 14 pages, Latex files, 5 figures not included, sorry. SCCS 331, ROM2F-92-35