Dmitrii E. Makarov

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Oden Institute
The University of Texas at Austin

Email: makarov [at] cm [dot] utexas [dot] edu

Books:

V.A. Benderskii, D.E. Makarov, and C.A. Wight, Chemical Dynamics at Low Temperatures, Wiley, New York, 1994.

D.E. Makarov, Single-Molecule Science: Physical Principles and Models, CRC Press, 2015.

R. Elber, D.E. Makarov, and H. Orland, Molecular Kinetics in Condensed Phases: Theory, Simulation, and Analysis, Wiley, 2020.

Preprints

• Modern view of activated rate processes: unidirectional fluxes at equilibrium, correlation functions, and splitting probabilities
  A. M. Berezhkovskii, K. Song, and D. E. Makarov, arXiv:2607.05672 (2026).


• Speed limits on biomolecular processes from fundamental physical constants
  D. E. Makarov, arXiv:2607.04549 (2026).


• Thermodynamic inference from noisy single-molecule time series
  T. R. Gingrich, O. A. Igoshin, A. B. Kolomeisky, and D. E. Makarov, arXiv:2606.23619 (2026).

Some of the Recent Publications

• Quantum Transition Rates in Arbitrary Physical Processes
  A. del Campo, A. Grabarits, D. E. Makarov, and S.-H. Shinn, Physical Review Letters 136, 210202 (2026).


• Transition State Theory for Dissociation of Dynamic Bonding Networks
  E. V. Anslyn and D. E. Makarov, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 22, 1601–1612 (2026).



• Static and Dynamic Rough Energy Landscapes Can Lead to Identical Diffusivity
  D. E. Makarov and P. Sollich, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, e2516241123 (2026).


• Time and Length Scales of Incomplete Translocation through Nanopores
  D. E. Makarov, A. M. Berezhkovskii, P. A. Gurnev, and S. M. Bezrukov, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16, 12354–12360 (2025).


• What the Boltzmann Money Game Teaches Us about Statistical Mechanics (and Maybe Economics)
  D. E. Makarov, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16, 9894–9899 (2025).


• Barrier Recrossing Dynamics and Phenomenological Rate Equations from Single-Molecule Perspective
  A. M. Berezhkovskii and D. E. Makarov, Journal of Chemical Physics 163, 051101 (2025).


• Hallmarks of Deception in Asset-Exchange Models
  K. Blom, D. E. Makarov, and A. Godec, Physical Review Research 7, 013279 (2025).


• Coarse-Graining Chemical Networks by Trimming to Preserve Energy Dissipation
  O. A. Igoshin, A. B. Kolomeisky, and D. E. Makarov, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16, 1229–1237 (2025).


• Uncovering Dissipation from Coarse Observables: A Case Study of a Random Walk with Unobserved Internal States
  O. A. Igoshin, A. B. Kolomeisky, and D. E. Makarov, Journal of Chemical Physics 162, 034111 (2025).


• The Significance of Fuzzy Boundaries of the Barrier Regions in Single-Molecule Measurements of Failed Barrier Crossing Attempts
  A. M. Berezhkovskii and D. E. Makarov, Journal of Chemical Physics 161, 101101 (2024).


• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of money/energy exchange models
  M. Miao, D. E. Makarov, and K. Blom, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 57, 155003 (2024).

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