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تسجيل مستخدم جديدA fluctuating environment as a source of periodic modulation
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We study the intermittent fluorescence of a single molecule, jumping from the light on to the light off state, as a Poisson process modulated by a fluctuating environment. We show that the quasi-periodic and quasi-deterministic environmental fluctuations make the distribution of the times of sojourn in the light off state depart from the exponential form, and that their succession in time mirrors environmental dynamics. As an illustration, we discuss some recent experimental results, where the environmental fluctuations depend on enzymatic activity.
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