Self-avoiding knots
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Scaling arguments are used to analyze the size of topologically constrained closed ring polymer with excluded volume. It is found that there exists a finite range of polymer thickness (excluded volume) in which self-avoidance is unimportant and polymer swelling compared to the Gaussian size is entirely due to the topological constraints.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207427,
title = {Self-avoiding knots},
author = {A. Yu. Grosberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207427},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures