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Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a circular nanocontainer through a nanopore under a driving force $F$. We observe that the translocation probability initially increases and then…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-06 Kehong Zhang , Kaifu Luo

We develop a theory for polymer translocation driven by a time-dependent force through an oscillating nanopore. To this end, we extend the iso-flux tension propagation theory (IFTP) [Sarabadani \textit{et al., J. Chem. Phys.}, 2014,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jalal Sarabadani , Timo Ikonen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

The impact of thermal fluctuations on the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain driven through a narrow pore has been investigated theoretically and by means of extensive Molecular-Dynamics (MD) simulation. The theoretical consideration…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

One of the most fundamental quantities associated with polymer translocation through a nanopore is the translocation time $\tau$ and its dependence on the chain length $N$. Our simulation results based on both the bond fluctuation Monte…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-08 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Pawel Pomorski , Mikko Karttunen

We study the driven translocation of a flexible polymer through an interacting conical pore using Langevin dynamics simulations. We find that, for a fixed value of externally applied force and pore polymer interaction strength, the mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-17 Rajneesh Kumar , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Rajeev Kapri

Using analytical techniques and Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanochannel embedded in two dimensions under an applied external field. We examine the translocation time for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-26 Huaisong Yong , Yilin Wang , Shichen Yuan , Bi Xu , Kaifu Luo

DNA translocation through nanopores is one of the most promising strategies for the next-generation sequencing technologies. Most part of experimental and numerical works has focused on polymer translocation biased by electrophoresis, where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-07 Timothée Menais

Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations are used to study the translocation dynamics of a coarse-grained polymer through a cylindrical nanopore. We consider the case of short polymers, with a polymer length, N, in the range N=21-61. The rate of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 James M. Polson , Taylor Dunn

We consider the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain forced through a nanopore by an external force on its head monomer on the trans side. For a proper theoretical treatment we generalize the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Jalal Sarabadani , Bappa Ghosh , Srabanti Chaudhury , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider the passage of long polymers of length N through a hole in a membrane. If the process is slow, it is in principle possible to focus on the dynamics of the number of monomers s on one side of the membrane, assuming that the two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We use a combination of computer simulations and iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory to investigate translocation dynamics of a flexible linear polymer through a nanopore into an environment composed of repulsive active rods in 2D.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-03 Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani , Tapio Ala-Nissila

The transport of polymers with folded configurations across membrane pores is investigated theoretically by analyzing simple discrete stochastic models. The translocation dynamics is viewed as a sequence of two events: motion of the folded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stanislav Kotsev , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

Using Langevin dynamics simulations in three dimensions (3D), we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into the regions between two parallel plane walls with separation $R$ under a driving force $F$, respectively. Compared with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-18 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler

We consider a polymer of length $N$ translocating through a narrow pore in the absence of external fields. Characterization of its purportedly anomalous dynamics has so far remained incomplete. We show that the polymer dynamics is anomalous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-08 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

The translocation dynamics of a polymer chain through a nanopore in the absence of an external driving force is analyzed by means of scaling arguments, fractional calculus, and computer simulations. The problem at hand is mapped on a one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-29 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We analyse the dynamics of polymer translocation in the strong force regime by recasting the problem into solving a differential equation with a moving absorbing boundary. For the total translocation time, $\tau_{\rm tr}$, our simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-01 Chiu Fan Lee

We consider the dynamics of pore-driven polymer translocation through a nanopore to semi-infinite space when the chain is initially confined and equilibrated in a narrow channel. To this end, we use Langevin dynamics (LD) simulations and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Soheila Emamyari , Jalal Sarabadani , Ralf Metzler , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We employ 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations to study the dynamics of polymer chains translocating through a nanopore in presence of asymmetric solvent conditions. Initially a large fraction ($>$ 50%) of the chain is placed at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-09 Christopher Lorscher , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Aniket Bhattacharya

The translocation of a polymer through a pore in a membrane separating fluids of different viscosities is studied via several computational approaches. Starting with the polymer halfway, we find that as a viscosity difference across the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-17 Hendrick W. de Haan , Gary W. Slater

Here using LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) software, we simulate polymer translocation in 2 dimensions. We do the simulations for weak and moderate forces and for different pore diameters. Our results show that in both non-equilibrium and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Mohammadreza Niknam Hamidabad , Rouhollah Haji Abdolvahab