Scaling behavior and equilibrium lengths of knotted polymers

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_25B197F30C73
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Scaling behavior and equilibrium lengths of knotted polymers
Périodique
Macromolecules
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Rawdon  E., Dobay  A., Kern  J.C., Millett  K.C., Piatek  M., Plunkett  P., Stasiak  A.
ISSN
0024-9297
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
06/2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
41
Numéro
12
Pages
4444-4451
Langue
anglais
Notes
Old month value: JUN 24
Résumé
We use numerical simulations to investigate how the chain length and topology of freely fluctuating knotted polymer rings affect their various spatial characteristics such as the radius of the smallest sphere enclosing momentary configurations of simulated polymer chains. We describe how the average value of a characteristic changes with the chain size and how this change depends on the topology of the modeled polymers. Although the scaling profiles of a spatial characteristic for distinct knot types do not intersect (at least, in the range of our data), the profiles for nontrivial knots intersect the corresponding profile obtained for phantom polymers, i.e., those that are free to explore all available topological states. For each knot type, this point of intersection defines its equilibrium length with respect to the spatial characteristic. At this chain length, a polymer forming a given knot type will not tend to increase or decrease. on average, the value of the spatial characteristic when the polymer is released from its topological constraint. We show interrelations between equilibrium lengths defined with respect to spatial characteristics of different character and observe that they are related to the lengths of ideal geometric configurations of the corresponding knot types.
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