Finite Temperature Phase Behavior of Viral Capsids as Oriented Particle Shells
Computational Physics
2020-04-22 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Abstract
A general phase-plot is proposed for discrete particle shells that allows for thermal fluctuations of the shell geometry and of the inter-particle connectivities. The phase plot contains a first-order melting transition, a buckling transition and a collapse transition and is used to interpret the thermodynamics of microbiological shells.
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@article{arxiv.1911.08948,
title = {Finite Temperature Phase Behavior of Viral Capsids as Oriented Particle Shells},
author = {Amit Rajnarayan Singh and Andrej Košmrlj and Robijn F. Bruinsma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08948},
year = {2020}
}
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11 pages including supplementary material, 5 figures