Wormlike chain or tense string? A question of resolution
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
It is shown that a wormlike chain, i.e., a filament with a fixed contour-length S and a bending elasticity kappa, attached to a frame of length L, can be described--at low resolutions--by the same type of elastic free-energy as a tense string. The corresponding tension is calculated as a function of temperature, L, kappa and S.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201042,
title = {Wormlike chain or tense string? A question of resolution},
author = {J. -B. Fournier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201042},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics