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We study unbiased translocation of a flexible polymer chain through a membrane pore under the influence of active noise and steric exclusion using Langevin dynamics simulations. The active noise is incorporated by introducing nonchiral and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-19 Zahra Fazli , Ali Naji

We consider the flow-driven translocation of single polymer chains through nanochannels. Using analytical calculations based on the de Gennes blob model and mesoscopic numerical simulations, we estimate the threshold flux for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-26 Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar , Takahiro Sakaue , Julia M. Yeomans

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

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 present a theoretical description of the dynamics of a semi-flexible polymer being pulled through a nanopore by an external force acting at the pore. Our theory is based on the tensile blob picture of Pincus in which the front of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Pui-Man Lam , Yi Zhen

The tube model is a central concept in polymer physics, and allows to reduce the complex many-filament problem of an entangled polymer solution to a single filament description. We investigate the probability distribution function of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-12 Hauke Hinsch , Erwin Frey

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

We use an off - lattice bead - spring model of a self - avoiding polymer chain immersed in a 3-dimensional quenched random medium to study chain dynamics by means of a Monte - Carlo (MC) simulation. The chain center of mass mean-squared…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We computationally investigate the active transport of tangentially-driven polymers with varying degrees of flexibility and activity in two-dimensional square lattices of obstacles. Tight periodic confinement induces notable conformational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-04 Mohammad Fazelzadeh , Ehsan Irani , Zahra Mokhtari , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to analyze the sub-diffusion dynamics of a tagged monomer in self-avoiding polymerized membranes in the flat phase. By decomposing the mean square displacement into the out-of-plane ($\parallel$)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Ken-ichi Mizuochi , Hiizu Nakanishi , Takahiro Sakaue

We have examined the behaviors of a knotted linear polymer in narrow tubes using Langevin dynamics simulation to investigate the knot localization property in one-dimensional (1D) geometry. We have found that the knot is strongly localized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-05 Chihiro H. Nakajima , Takahiro Sakaue

We present numerical studies of the transport dynamics of a charged soliton in conjugated polymers under the influence of an external time-dependent electric field. All relevant electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions are nearly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 Haibo Ma , Ulrich Schollwoeck

Most of the theoretical models describing the translocation of a polymer chain through a nanopore use the hypothesis that the polymer is always relaxed during the complete process. In other words, models generally assume that the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Michel G. Gauthier , Gary W. Slater

We present using simple scaling arguments and one step replica symmetry breaking a theory for the localization of semiflexible polymers in a quenched random environment. In contrast to completely flexible polymers, localization of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis

The relaxation dynamics of a polymer wound around a fixed obstacle constitutes a fundamental instance of polymer with twist and torque and it is of relevance also for DNA denaturation dynamics. We investigate it by simulations and Langevin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Jean-Charles Walter , Marco Baiesi , Gerard Barkema , Enrico Carlon

Dynamics of a discrete polymer in time-dependent external potentials is studied with the master equation approach. We consider both stochastic and deterministic switching mechanisms for the potential states and give the essential equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-25 Janne Kauttonen , Juha Merikoski , Otto Pulkkinen

We study pore blockade times for a translocating polymer of length $N$, driven by a field $E$ across the pore in three dimensions. The polymer performs Rouse dynamics, i.e., we consider polymer dynamics in the absence of hydrodynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-15 Henk Vocks , Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

We study the propagation of tension caused by an external force along a long polymeric molecule in two different settings, namely along a free polymer in 3d space being pulled from one end, and along a pre-stretched circular polymer,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-20 Payam Rowghanian , Alexander Y. Grosberg

We use lattice-Boltzmann molecular dynamics (LBMD) simulations to study the compression of a confined polymer immersed in a fluid and pushed by a large spherical colloid with a diameter comparable to the channel width. We examined the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-24 Setarehalsadat Changizrezaei , Mikko Karttunen , Colin Denniston

We study the dynamics of driven polymer translocation using both molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and a theoretical model based on the non-equilibrium tension propagation on the {\it cis} side subchain. We present theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Timo Ikonen , Aniket Bhattacharya , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Wokyung Sung