Aldo Di Biasio - Università degli Studi di Parma #
Cooperativity and anticooperativity in chemical kinetics through 
mean-field models #
We consider cooperative reactions and we study the effects of the 
interaction strength among the system components on the reaction rate, 
hence realizing a connection between microscopic and macroscopic 
observables. Our approach is based on statistical mechanics models and it 
is developed analytically via mean-field techniques.
We show that cooperative and anticooperative behaviors naturally emerge 
from the model when the coupling strength is set to be respectively 
positive and negative,
so that varying a simple effective parameter a plethora of different 
phenomena are recovered.