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Phase Diagram of Twist Storing Lattice Polymers in Variable Solvent Quality

Statistical Mechanics 2016-10-28 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

When double stranded DNA is turned in experiments it undergoes a transition. We use an interacting self-avoiding walk on a three-dimensional fcc lattice weighted by writhe to relate to these experiments and treat this problem via simulations. We provide evidence for the existence of a thermodynamic phase transition induced by writhe and examine related phase diagrams taking solvent quality and stretching into account.

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@article{arxiv.1510.07960,
  title  = {Phase Diagram of Twist Storing Lattice Polymers in Variable Solvent Quality},
  author = {Eduardo Dagrosa and Aleksander L Owczarek and Thomas Prellberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07960},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, 12 figures