title: If "discrete breathers" is the answer, what is the question?
abstract: Intense work on discrete breathers or intrinsic localized modes in recent years has revealed a wealth of new properties of classical energy localization. Relaxation and mobility in particular may be two of the critical links with biomolecular processes. We review some of the basic discrete breather properties that we think are pertinent to biomolecules and make conjectures as to their possible biological utility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, Heraklion 71003, Crete, Greece. gts@physics.uoc.gr
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Tsironis
mesh_terms: D001704:Biopolymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D003461:Crystallography; D004735:Energy Transfer; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers; D046911:Macromolecular Substances