Dynamics of a three-dimensional inextensible chain
Statistical Mechanics
2009-05-22 v2
Abstract
In the first part of this work the classical and statistical aspects of the dynamics of an inextensible chain in three dimensions are investigated. In the second part the special case of a chain admitting only fixed angles with respect to the axis is studied using a path integral approach. It is shown that it is possible to reduce this problem to a two-dimensional case, in a way which is similar to the reduction of the statistical mechanics of a directed polymer to the random walk of a two-dimensional particle.
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@article{arxiv.0901.1536,
title = {Dynamics of a three-dimensional inextensible chain},
author = {Franco Ferrari and Jaroslaw Paturej and Thomas A. Vilgis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1536},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, version accepted for publication