College Physics ›› 2025, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 108-.doi: 10.16854/j.cnki.1000-0712.250236

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Recommendation for a frontier research monograph《Statistical Physics and Complex Transport of Biomolecular Motors》

GAO Tianfu1, ZHENG Zhigang2,3   

  1. 1. College of Physical Science and Technology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China; 
    2. Institute of Systems Science, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China; 
    3. College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China
  • Received:2025-05-05 Revised:2025-06-03 Online:2026-03-13 Published:2026-03-23

Abstract:

Nonequilibrium transport is one of the most important and active frontiers in statistical physics of nonequilibrium and complex systems today. Biomolecular motors are typical nonequilibrium complex systems, and their nonequilibrium transport processes and statistical physics are the important contents in this field. Given the current lack of systematic monographs on molecular motors in China, we have authored the scholarly work《Statistical Physics and Complex Transport of Biomolecular Motors》. This monograph is rooted in the field of molecular motors, and the different types of ratchet models are established physically according to the diversity of motors. The biological complexity of directional transport generated by molecular motors are investigated by nonequilibrium transport theory, stochastic energetics and stochastic thermodynamics theory. This book is divided into 9 chapters, and shows the readers the basic problems and the new development in the field of molecular motors systematically. This monograph can be read by researchers of statistical physics and molecular motor, graduate students and senior undergraduates, and the monograph also has important reference value for researchers in cross fields related to biophysics.


Key words: biomolecular motor, statistical physics, stochastic dynamics, complex transport