L. Cianchi, P. Moretti and F. Piazza,


Superconducting cuprates: a simple model of coupling between electronic holes through apical ions
Phys. Lett. A , 246 , 451 (1998)
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F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi
Slow energy relaxation and localization in 1D lattices
J. Phys. A , 34 , 9803 (2001)
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F. Piazza et al.
Study of atomic motions in EuBa_2Cu_3O_[7-d] by Moessbauer and EXAFS spectroscopies
J. Superc. , 14 , 675 (2001)
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F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi
Cooling nonlinear lattices toward localisation, invited paper on
Chaos - Focus issue "Nonlinear localised modes; Fundamental Concepts and Applications",
13 (2), 637-645 (2003)
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F. Piazza
A Quantum Perturbative Pair Distribution for determining interatomic potentials from EXAFS
J. Phys. C , 14 (45) 11623 (2002)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, S. Sandin and U. Skoglund
Freezing Immunoglobulins to see them move
PNAS , 101 , 6466-6471 (2004)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, S. Sandin and U. Skoglund
Dynamics of Antibodies from Cryo-Electron Tomography
Biophys. Chemistry , 115(2-3) 235-240 (2005)
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F. Piazza and P. Lio'
Statistical analysis of low-complexity sequences in the human genome
Physica A , 347 , 472-488 (2005)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, D. Fanelli, L. Bongini and U. Skoglund
Anticooperativity in diffusion-controlled reactions with pairs of partially absorbing domains: a model for the antigen-antibody encounter
Eur. Biophysics J. - 34(7) 899-911 (2005)
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T. Dauxois, R. Khomeriki, F. Piazza and S. Ruffo
The anti-FPU problem, invited paper
Chaos - 15 , 015110 (2005)
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M. Elefhteriou, S. Lepri, R. Livi and F. Piazza
Stretched-exponential relaxation in arrays of coupled rotators
Physica D - 204 /3-4, 230-239 (2005)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Slow energy relaxation of macromolecules and nano-clusters in solution
Phys. Rev. Lett. - 94, 145502 (2005)
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P. De Los Rios, F. Cecconi, A. Grignoli Pretre, G. Dietler, O. Michielin, F. Piazza and B. Juanico
Functional Dynamics of PDZ Binding Domains: a Normal Mode Analysis
Biophys. J. - 89 , 14-21 (2005)
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S. Ciliberti, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
Glass-like structure of globular proteins and the boson peak
Phys. Rev. Lett. - 96, 198103 (2006)
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S. Ciliberti, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
On the origin of the Boson peak in globular proteins
Philosophical Magazine. - 87(3-5), 631-641 (2007)
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C. Caretta-Cartozo, P. De Los Rios, F. Piazza and P. Lio,
Topological analysis of a network of periodic genes in the cell-cycle of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe
PLoS Computational Biology - 3 (6), e103 (2007)
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F. Cecconi, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
Diffusion-limited unbinding of small peptides from PDZ domains
J. Phys. Chem. B - 111, 11057-11063 (2007)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, S. Svensson, M. Gedda, F. Piazza, and U. Skoglund.
Resolving the geometry of biomolecules imaged by cryo electron tomography.
J. Microscopy - 228, 174-184 (2007)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, M. Sanner and U. Skoglund
A dynamical study of antibody-antigen encounter reactions
Physical Biology - 4, 172-180 (2007)
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B. Juanico, Y.-H. Sanejouand, F. Piazza and P. De Los Rios
Discrete breathers in nonlinear network models of proteins
Physical Review Letters - 99, 238104 (2007)
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F. Piazza
Surface effects in nonlinear distributed systems: slow relaxation and spontaneous emergence of localized coherent modes
invited book chapter for "New Research on Nonlinear Phenomena", T. Perlidze ed.
Nova Science Publishers, NY (2008),
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Discrete breathers in protein structures
Physical Biology - 5, 026001 (2008)
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F. Piazza and S. Lepri
Heat wave propagation in a nonlinear chain
Physical Review B - 79, 094306 (2009)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and F. Cecconi
Temperature dependence of normal mode reconstructions of protein dynamics
Physical Review Letters - 102, 218104 (2009)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Long-range energy transfer in proteins
Physical Biology - 6 , 046014 (2009)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Energy transfer in nonlinear network models of proteins
Europhysics Letters - 88 , 68001 (2009)
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T. Piazza and F. Piazza
On inconsistent entities. A reply to Colyvan
Philosophical Studies - 150, issue 2, 301-311 (2010)
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L. Bongini, F. Piazza, L. Casetti and P. De Los Rios
Vibrational entropy and the structural organization of proteins
European Physical Journal (EPJ) E - 33(1), 89-96 (2010)
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N. Dorsaz, C. De Michele, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and G. Foffi
Diffusion-limited reactions in crowded environments
Physical Review Letters - 105, 120601 (2010)
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N. Dorsaz , C. De Michele, F. Piazza and G. Foffi
Inertial effects in diffusion-limited reactions
Journal of Physics C; Condensed Matter - 22, 104116 (2010)
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F. Piazza
A simple Monte Carlo model for crowd dynamics
Physical Review E - 82, 02611 (2010)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Breather-mediated energy transfer in proteins
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series S (DCDS) - 4(5), 1247 (2011)
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S. Luccioli, A. Imparato, S. Lepri, F. Piazza and A. Torcini
Discrete breathers in a realistic coarse-grained model of proteins
Physical Biology - 8, 046008 (2011)
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A. Zaccone, N. Dorsaz, F. Piazza, C. De Michele, M. Morbidelli and Giuseppe Foffi
Crowding, intermolecular interactions, and shear-flow effects in the diffusion model of chemical reactions
Journal of Physical Chemistry - 115(22), 7383–7396 (2011)
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P. Csermely, K. Singh Sandhu, E. Hazai, Z. Hoksza, H. J.M. Kiss, F. Miozzo, D. V. Veres, F. Piazza, R. Nussinov
Disordered proteins and network disorder in network descriptions of protein structure, dynamics and function. Hypotheses and a comprehensive review
Current Protein and Peptide Science - 13(1), 9-33 (2012)
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Carlo Maffi, Marco Baiesi, Lapo Casetti, Francesco Piazza and Paolo De Los Rios
First order coil-to-globule transition driven by vibrational entropy
Nature Communications - 3, 1065 (2012)
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P. de Buyl, G. De Ninno, D. Fanelli, C. Nardini, A. Patelli, F. Piazza and Y. Y. Yamaguchi
Absence of thermalization for systems with long-range interactions coupled to a thermal bath
Physical Review E - 87 , 042110 (2013)
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M. Naji, F. Piazza, G. Guimbretiere, A. Canizaré and Y. Vaills
Structural Relaxation Dynamics and Annealing Effects of Sodium Silicate Glass
Journal of Physical Chemistry B - 117 , 5757-5764 (2013)
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F. Piazza, G. Foffi and C. De Michele
Irreversible bimolecular reactions with inertia: from the trapping to the target setting at finite densities
Journal of Physics C - Condensed Matter - , (2013)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, C. De Michele, N. Dorsaz and G. Foffi
Local-density theory of diffusion-limited reactions in crowded media
submitted to Journal of Physics C - Condensed Matter - , (2013)
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