Tomohiro Yanao 

     JSPS Fellow for Research Abroad (February 2008 - January 2010)



     Prof. Jerrold E. Marsden Group 

     Control and Dynamical Systems, Mail Code 107-81 

     California Institute of Technology 

     1200 East California Boulevard,  Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 

     Phone: +1-626-395-3363,  Fax: +1-626-395-6170 

     E-mail: tyanao (at) cds.caltech.edu 










 Research Subject 

      Nonlinear dynamics and geometry for complex molecular/biomolecular systems 







 Publications 


12. T. Yanao and K. Yoshikawa, Physical Review E 77, 021904 (pp.1-11) (2008). 

   "Elastic Origin of Chiral Selection in DNA Wrapping" 



11. T. Yanao, W. S. Koon, J. E. Marsden, and I. G. Kevrekidis, to appear in PAMM (2008).

   "Collective Coordinates and the Mechanism for Conformational Transitions of Complex Molecules"



10. T. Yanao, W. S. Koon, J. E. Marsden, and I. G. Kevrekidis, The Journal of Chemical Physics 126, 124102 (pp.1-17) (2007). 

   "Gyration-Radius Dynamics in Structural Transitions of Atomic Clusters" 



9. T. Yanao, W. S. Koon, and J. E. Marsden, Physical Review A 73, 052704 (pp.1-11) (2006).

   "Mass effects and internal space geometry in triatomic reaction dynamics"



8.  T. Yanao, W. S. Koon, and J. E. Marsden, to appear in Few-Body Systems 38, pp.161 (2006).

   "Mass-related dynamical barriers in triatomic reactions"



7.  F. Gabern, W. S. Koon, J. E. Marsden, S. D. Ross, and T. Yanao, Few-Body Systems 38, pp.167 (2006).

   "Application of tube dynamics to non-statistical reaction processes"



6.  T. Yanao, Biophysics 45, pp.66-71 (2005).

   "The "falling cat" problem and Riemannian geometry of shape space:
 
    An application to the structural transition dynamics of molecules"



5.  T. Yanao and K. Takatsuka, Advances in Chemical Physics 130 B, pp.87-128 (2005).

   "Effects of an intrinsic metric of molecular internal space on chemical reaction dynamics"



4.  T. Yanao and K. Takatsuka, Journal of Chemical Physics 120, pp.8924-8936 (2004).

   "Kinematic effects associated with molecular frames in structural isomerization dynamics of clusters"



3.  T. Yanao and K. Takatsuka, Physical Review A 68, 032714 (pp.1-16) (2003).

   "Collective coordinates and an accompanying metric force in structural isomerization dynamics of molecules"



2. K. Takatsuka and T. Yanao, Journal of Chemical Physics 113, pp.2552-2562 (2000).

   "Microcanonical temperature and its Arrhenius relation to lifetimes in isomerization dynamics of clusters"



1. T. Yanao and K. Takatsuka, Chemical Physics Letters 313, pp.633-638 (1999).

   "Timescale of isomerization reactions and isotropic inflation model of basin boundaries in cluster dynamics"