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Using a finite size scaling form for reunion probability, we show numerically the existence of a binding-unbinding transition for Directed polymers with random interaction. The cases studied are (A1) two chains in 1+1 dimensions, (A2) two…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Sutapa Mukherji , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee , A. Baumgärtner

We study the passage (translocation) of a self-avoiding polymer through a membrane pore in two dimensions. In particular, we numerically measure the probability distribution Q(T) of the translocation time T, and the distribution P(s,t) of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-12 Clément Chatelain , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

Polymer's network is treated as an anisotropic fractal with fractional dimensionality D = 1 + \epsilon close to one. Percolation model on such a fractal is studied. Using the real space renormalization group approach of Migdal and Kadanoff…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 A. N. Samukhin , V. N. Prigodin , L. Jastrabik

Polymer translocation in three dimensions out of planar confinements is studied in this paper. Three membranes are located at $z=-h$, $z=0$ and $z=h_1$. These membranes are impenetrable, except for the middle one at $z=0$, which has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-29 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

We calculate the mean end-to-end distance ($R$) of a self-avoiding polymer encapsulated in an infinitely long cylinder with radius $D$. A self-consistent perturbation theory is used to calculate $R$ as a function of $D$ for impenetrable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Morrison , D. Thirumalai

Using a lattice-based Monte Carlo code for simulating self-avoiding flexible polymers in three dimensions in the absence of explicit hydrodynamics, we study their Rouse modes. For self-avoiding polymers, the Rouse modes are not expected to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-20 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema

Diffusion constants D_{R} and D_{L} of ring and linear polymers of the same molecular weight in a good solvent, respectively, have been evaluated through the Brownian dynamics with hydrodynamic interaction. The ratio $C=D_{R}/D_{L}$, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Naoko Kanaeda , Tetsuo Deguchi

There have been increasing reports that the diffusion coefficient of macromolecules depends on time and fluctuates randomly. Here, a novel method to elucidate the fluctuating diffusivity from trajectory data is developed. The time-averaged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Tomoshige Miyaguchi

Two-dimensional monodisperse linear polymer chains are known to adopt for sufficiently large chain lengths $N$ and surface fractions $\phi$ compact configurations with fractal perimeters. We show here by means of Monte Carlo simulations of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-04 J. P. Wittmer , A. Cavallo , A. Johner

Twist stiffness and an asymmetric bending stiffness of a polymer or a polymer bundle is captured by the elastic ribbon model. We investigate the effects a ring geometry induces to a thermally fluctuating ribbon, finding bend-bend coupling…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-02-07 Karen Alim , Erwin Frey

We present an exactly solvable model of a Gaussian (flexible) polymer chain in a quenched random medium. This is the case when the random medium obeys very long range quadratic correlations. The model is solved in $d$ spatial dimensions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Yohannes Shiferaw , Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

We introduce a new disorder regime for directed polymers in dimension $1+1$ that sits between the weak and strong disorder regimes. We call it the intermediate disorder regime. It is accessed by scaling the inverse temperature parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Tom Alberts , Konstantin Khanin , Jeremy Quastel

We investigate mutual local chain order in systems of fully flexible polymer melts in a simple generic bead-spring model. The excluded-volume interaction together with the connectivity leads to local ordering effects which are independent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Roland Faller , Mathias Puetz , Florian Mueller-Plathe

We show random polymer is diffusive in dimensions 1 and 2 in probability in an intermediate scaling regime. The scale is $\beta= o(N^{-1/4})$ in d=1 and $\beta=o((\log N)^{-1/2})$ in $d=2$ as $N\rightarrow \infty$.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Zi Sheng Feng

For a directed polymer in a random medium lying on an infinite cylinder, that is in 1+1 dimensions with finite width and periodic boundary conditions on the transverse direction, the winding number is simply the algebraic number of turns…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Brunet

It has been assumed until very recently that all long-range correlations are screened in three-dimensional melts of linear homopolymers on distances beyond the correlation length $\xi$ characterizing the decay of the density fluctuations.…

We consider an inextensible, semiflexible polymer or worm-like chain, with persistence length $P$ and contour length $L$, fluctuating in a cylindrical channel of diameter $D$. In the regime $D\ll P\ll L$, corresponding to a long, tightly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Theodore W. Burkhardt , Yingzi Yang , Gerhard Gompper

Stretched polymers with attractive interaction are studied in two and three dimensions. They are described by biased self-avoiding random walks with nearest neighbour attraction. The bias corresponds to opposite forces applied to the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Grassberger , Hsiao-Ping Hsu

Using a general Green function formulation, we re-derive, both, (i) Spitzer and his followers results for the winding angle distribution of the planar Brownian motion, and (ii) Edwards-Prager-Frisch results on the statistical mechanics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Grosberg , H. Frisch

Angular correlations in dense solutions and melts of flexible polymer chains are investigated with respect to the distance $r$ between the bonds by comparing quantitative predictions of perturbation calculations with numerical data obtained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Wittmer , A. Johner , S. P. Obukhov , H. Meyer , A. Cavallo , J. Baschnagel