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Comment on ``Passage Times for Unbiased Polymer Translocation through a Narrow Pore''

Soft Condensed Matter 2008-11-08 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

One of the most fundamental quantities associated with polymer translocation through a nanopore is the translocation time τ\tau and its dependence on the chain length NN. Our simulation results based on both the bond fluctuation Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics methods confirm the original prediction τN2ν+1\tau\sim N^{2\nu+1}, which scales in the same manner as the Rouse relaxation time of the chain except for a larger prefactor, and invalidates other scaling claims.

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@article{arxiv.0709.4615,
  title  = {Comment on ``Passage Times for Unbiased Polymer Translocation through a Narrow Pore''},
  author = {Kaifu Luo and Tapio Ala-Nissila and See-Chen Ying and Pawel Pomorski and Mikko Karttunen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4615},
  year   = {2008}
}

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1+pages, 1 Figure, Minor changes

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