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We derive the stochastic equations of motion for a tracer that is tightly attached to a semiflexible polymer and confined or agitated by an externally controlled potential. The generalised Langevin equation, the power spectrum, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-22 Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn , Sebastian Sturm , Lars Wolff , Klaus Kroy

We propose a model for two $(d+1)$-dimensional directed polymers subjected to a mutual $\delta$-function interaction with a random coupling constant, and present an exact renormalization group study for this system. The exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Sutapa Mukherji , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Dilute or semi-dilute solutions of non-intersecting self-avoiding walk (SAW) polymer chains are mapped onto a fluid of ``soft'' particles interacting via an effective pair potential between their centers of mass. This mapping is achieved by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. G. Bolhuis , A. A. Louis , J. P. Hansen , E. J. Meijer

We compute the free energy of confinement ${\cal{F}}$ for a wormlike chain (WLC), with persistence length $l_p$, that is confined to the surface of a cylinder of radius $R$ under an external tension $f$ using a mean field variational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-28 Greg Morrison , D. Thirumalai

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

In this paper, the looping kinetics of a long polymer chain in solution has been investigated by using two state model, where one state represents open chain polymer molecule and the other represents closed chain polymer molecule. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Moumita Ganguly , Aniruddha Chakraborty

We present a study of the bend angle distribution of semiflexible polymers of short and intermediate lengths within the wormlike chain model. This enables us to calculate the elastic response of a stiff molecule to a bending moment. Our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Anirban Polley , Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

An off-lattice Monte Carlo algorithm for solutions of equilibrium polymers (EP) is proposed. At low and moderate densities this is shown to reproduce faithfully the (static) properties found recently for flexible linear EP using a lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Milchev , J. P. Wittmer , D. P. Landau

We present a computer simulation of entangled polymer solutions at equilibrium. The chains repel each other via a soft Gaussian potential, appropriate for semi-dilute solutions at the scale of a correlation blob. The key innovation to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Airidas Korolkovas , Philipp Gutfreund , Jean-Louis Barrat

The analytical solution of the recently proposed ideal chain polymer mean-spherical approximation (Yu.Kalyuzhnyi, Mol.Phys., 94, 735(1998)) is presented for the multicomponent mixture of charged hard-sphere linear chain flexible molecules.…

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Exact self-consistent particle-like solutions with spherical and/or cylindrical symmetry to the equations governing the interacting system of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational fields have been obtained. As a particular case it is…

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We present an exact solution describing equilibrium properties of the catalytically-activated A + A \to 0 reaction taking place on a one-dimensional lattice, where some of the sites possess special "catalytic" properties. The A particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Oshanin , O. Benichou , A. Blumen

We present a novel and rigorous approach to the Langevin dynamics of ideal polymer chains subject to internal distance constraints. The permanent constraints are modelled by harmonic potentials in the limit when the strength of the…

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In a quantum many-body system that possesses an additive conserved quantity, the entanglement entropy of a subsystem can be resolved into a sum of contributions from different sectors of the subsystem's reduced density matrix, each sector…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-26 Shachar Fraenkel , Moshe Goldstein

Machine learning models for the potential energy of multi-atomic systems, such as the deep potential (DP) model, make possible molecular simulations with the accuracy of quantum mechanical density functional theory, at a cost only…

We establish a collection of closed-loop guarantees and propose a scalable optimization algorithm for distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) applied to linear systems, convex constraints, and quadratic costs. Via standard…

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Exact solutions of traversable wormholes are found under the assumption of spherical symmetry and the existence of a {\it non-static} conformal symmetry, which presents a more systematic approach in searching for exact wormhole solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We develop topological methods for characterizing the relationship between polymer chain entanglement and bulk viscoelastic responses. We introduce generalized Linking Number and Writhe characteristics that are applicable to open linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Eleni Panagiotou , Ken Millett , Paul J. Atzberger

We present a unified theory for the longitudinal dynamic response of a stiff polymer in solution to various external perturbations (mechanical excitations, hydrodynamic flows, electrical fields, temperature quenches ...) that can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Hallatschek , Erwin Frey , Klaus Kroy