Diffusion coefficient for reptation of polymers with kinematic disorder
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We give a lower bound on the diffusion coefficient of a polymer chain in an entanglement network with kinematic disorder, which is obtained from an exact calculation in a modified Rubinstein-Duke lattice gas model with periodic boundary conditions. In the limit of infinite chain length we show the diffusive motion of the polymer to be slowed down by kinematic disorder by the same factor as for a single particle in a random barrier model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107461,
title = {Diffusion coefficient for reptation of polymers with kinematic disorder},
author = {Richard D. Willmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107461},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, revised text, journal ref. added