Jim Lutsko

Jim Lutsko

My interests include Statistical Physics; Crystallization; Density Functional Theory, Simulation methods - particularly rare event techniques, Protein physics, Granular physics and Crystal Growth. I am based in the Physics of Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics group at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

[055] The effect of the range of interaction on the phase diagram of a globular protein

James F. Lutsko and Gregoire Nicolis, "The effect of the range of interaction on the phase diagram of a globular protein", J. of Chemical Physics, 122, 244907 (2005) http://jimlutsko.github.io/files/LutskoNicolis.pdf

Abstract

Thermodynamic perturbation theory is applied to the model of globular proteins studied by ten Wolde and Frenkel [P. R. ten Wolde and D. Frenkel Science 77, 1975 (1997)] using computer simulation. It is found that the reported phase diagrams are accurately reproduced. The calculations show how the phase diagram can be tuned as a function of the length scale of the potential.