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Schematic representation of the simplified energy landscape used in our theoretical description. The state of the folded hairpin occurs at x = 0 and the state of the unfolded hairpin at x = L. The distances between the transition state and the folded and unfolded states are denoted by x→ and x←, respectively. By definition, we have L = x→ + x←.
