Characteristic length of random knotting for cylindrical self-avoiding polygons
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We discuss the probability of random knotting for a model of self-avoiding polygons whose segments are given by cylinders of unit length with radius . We show numerically that the characteristic length of random knotting is roughly approximated by an exponential function of the chain thickness .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008268,
title = {Characteristic length of random knotting for cylindrical self-avoiding polygons},
author = {Miyuki K. shimamura and Tetsuo Deguchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008268},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures