Helical structures from an isotropic homopolymer model
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1 Biomolecules
Abstract
We present Monte Carlo simulation results for square-well homopolymers at a series of bond lengths. Although the model contains only isotropic pairwise interactions, under appropriate conditions this system shows spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, where the chain exists in either a left- or a right-handed helical structure. We investigate how this behavior depends upon the ratio between bond length and monomer radius.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605246,
title = {Helical structures from an isotropic homopolymer model},
author = {James E. Magee and Victor R. Vasquez and Leo Lue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605246},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters