The entropic pressure of lattice knots
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-19 v4
Abstract
The entropic pressure in the vicinity of a cubic lattice knot is examined as a model of the entropic pressure near a knotted ring polymer in a good solvent. A model for the scaling of the pressure is developed and this is tested numerically by sampling lattice knots using a Monte Carlo algorithm. Good agreement is found between scaling predictions and numerical experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1404.0707,
title = {The entropic pressure of lattice knots},
author = {EJ Janse van Rensburg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0707},
year = {2015}
}