Ideal, best packing, and energy minimizing double helices
Computational Physics
2016-03-21 v2 Differential Geometry
Quantitative Methods
Abstract
We study optimal double helices with straight axes (or the fattest tubes around them) computationally using three kinds of functionals; ideal ones using ropelength, best volume packing ones, and energy minimizers using two one-parameter families of interaction energies between two strands of types and . We compare the numerical results with experimental data of DNA.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1104.0489,
title = {Ideal, best packing, and energy minimizing double helices},
author = {Jun O'Hara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0489},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 16 figures, to appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. Minor change and reference updated