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The Writhe Distribution Of Stretched Polymers

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v2 Statistical Mechanics Biomolecules Quantum Physics

Abstract

Motivated by experiments in which single DNA molecules are stretched and twisted we consider a perturbative approach around very high forces, where we determine the writhe distribution in a simple, analytically tractable model. Our results are in agreement with recent simulations and experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403025,
  title  = {The Writhe Distribution Of Stretched Polymers},
  author = {Supurna Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403025},
  year   = {2009}
}

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