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A ring polymer is a random walk whose steps obey a single linear condition; their sum vanishes. Factoring the graph Laplacian into the product of the incidence matrix and its transpose allows us to show that for a more complicated network,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jason Cantarella , Tetsuo Deguchi , Clayton Shonkwiler , Erica Uehara

We compute the dynamic structure factors of a dense binary liquid mixture. These describe dynamics on molecular length scales, where structural relaxation is important. We find that the presence of a few large particles in a dense fluid of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Supurna Sinha

An exact analytical expression for the static structure factor $S(k)$ in disordered materials is derived from Fourier transformed neighbor distribution decompositions in real space, and permits to reconstruct the function $S(k)$ in an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-18 M. Micoulaut

We present a formalism for the scattering of an arbitrary linear or acyclic branched structure build by joining mutually non-interacting arbitrary functional sub-units. The formalism consists of three equations expressing the structural…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Carsten Svaneborg , Jan Skov Pedersen

The structure and function of polymers in confined environments, e.g., biopolymers in the cytoplasm of a cell, are strongly affected by macromolecular crowding. To explore the influence of solvent quality on conformations of crowded…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-27 Wyatt J. Davis , Alan R. Denton

Entangled polymers are deformed by a strong shear flow. The shape of the polymer, called the form factor, is measured by small angle neutron scattering. However, the real-space molecular structure is not directly available from the…

We analyse a path to construct density functionals for the dispersion interaction energy from an expression in terms of the ground state densities and exchange-correlation holes of the isolated fragments. The expression is based on a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi

We consider the complex polymer system, consisting of ring polymer connected to the $f_1$-branched star-like structure, in good solvent in presence of structural inhomogeneities. We assume, that structural defects are correlated at large…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-14 K. Haydukivska , V. Blavatska

In the paper the flow in a thin tubular structure is considered. The velocity of the flow stands for a coefficient in the diffusion-convection equation set in the thin structure. An asymptotic expansion of solution is constructed. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-11 G. Cardone , G. P. Panasenko , Y. Sirakov

In this paper we study the shape characteristics of star-like polymers in various solvent quality using a mesoscopic level of modeling. The dissipative particle dynamics simulations are performed for the homogeneous and four different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-24 O. Kalyuzhnyi , J. M. Ilnytskyi , Yu. Holovatch , C. von Ferber

In the presented work we study, by means of numerical simulations, the behaviour of a suspension of active ring polymers in the bulk and under lateral confinement. When changing the separation between the confining planes and the polymers'…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-31 Juan Pablo Miranda-López , Emanuele Locatelli , Chantal Valeriani

We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all gathered in a contiguous block, the position of the section along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-04 Marin Vatin , Sumanta Kundu , Emanuele Locatelli

We develop Monte Carlo simulations for uniformly charged polymers and machine learning algorithm to interpret the intra-polymer structure factor of the charged polymer system, which can be obtained from small-angle scattering experiments.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-21 Lijie Ding , Chi-Huan Tung , Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo , Wei-Ren Chen , Changwoo Do

We determine the density expansion of the radius of gyration, of the hydrodynamic radius, and of the end-to-end distance for a monodisperse polymer solution in good-solvent conditions. We consider the scaling limit (large degree of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio Caracciolo , Bortolo Matteo Mognetti , Andrea Pelissetto

Consider directed polymers in a random environment on the complete graph of size $N$. This model can be formulated as a product of i.i.d. $N\times N$ random matrices and its large time asymptotics is captured by Lyapunov exponents and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Francis Comets , Gregorio R. Moreno Flores , Alejandro F. Ramirez

Using a theoretical model we show that ideal ring polymers are stronger depletants than ideal linear polymers of equal radii of gyration, but not of equal hydrodynamic radii. The difference in the depletion-induced force profile is largely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-14 Mauro L. Mugnai

The correlations between the segments of a semidilute polymer solution are found to induce correlations in the positions of small particles added to the solution. Small means a diameter much less than the polymer's correlation length. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard P. Sear

Polymers are an effective test-bed for studying topological constraints in condensed matter due to a wide array of synthetically-available chain topologies. When linear and ring polymers are blended together, emergent rheological properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-25 Daniel L. Vigil , Ting Ge , Michael Rubinstein , Thomas C. O'Connor , Gary S. Grest

Ring polymers remain a major challenge to our current understanding of polymer dynamics. Experimental results are difficult to interpret because of the uncertainty in the purity and dispersity of the sample. Using both equilibrium and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan D. Halverson , Gary S. Grest , Alexander Y. Grosberg , Kurt Kremer

For numerical semigroups with a specified list of (not necessarily minimal) generators, we obtain explicit asymptotic expressions, and in some cases quasipolynomial/quasirational representations, for all major factorization length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Stephan Ramon Garcia , Mohamed Omar , Christopher O'Neill , Samuel Yih