Abstract
The exact kinetics of a 10 × 10 Ising system (periodic boundary conditions) with two-state channels arranged in a square lattice was studied by computer simulation. With all three values of the cooperativity parameter used, no induction in the K+-current curve was obtained. This confirms one of our previous conclusions concerning K+ channels in the squid axon membrane: models with interacting channels arranged in a twodimensional lattice (Adam's model) are apparently excluded. Other topics included: equilibrium properties; short-range pair correlation functions; phase transition.
Keywords: computer simulation, Ising kinetics, Adam model, correlation functions, phase transition
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