Thermodynamics of tubelike flexible polymers
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-07-20 v1
Abstract
In this work we present the general phase behavior of short tubelike flexible polymers. The geometric thickness constraint is implemented through the concept of the global radius of curvature. We use sophisticated Monte Carlo sampling methods to simulate small bead-stick polymer models with Lennard-Jones interaction among non-bonded monomers. We analyze energetic fluctuations and structural quantities to classify conformational pseudophases. We find that the tube thickness influences the thermodynamic behavior of simple tubelike polymers significantly, i.e., for given temperature, the formation of secondary structures strongly depends on the tube thickness.
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@article{arxiv.0907.3042,
title = {Thermodynamics of tubelike flexible polymers},
author = {Thomas Vogel and Thomas Neuhaus and Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3042},
year = {2009}
}