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The most conspicuous property of a semiflexible polymer is its persistence length, defined as the decay length of tangent correlations along its contour. Using an efficient stochastic growth algorithm to sample polymers embedded in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Sebastian Schöbl , Sebastian Sturm , Wolfhard Janke , Klaus Kroy

Assuming Gaussian chain statistics along the chain contour, we generate by means of a proper fractal generator hyperbranched polymer trees which are marginally compact. Static and dynamical properties, such as the radial intrachain pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-01 M. Dolgushev , J. P. Wittmer , A. Johner , O. Benzerara , H. Meyer , J. Baschnagel

We describe method to discuss thermodynamics of a defected semi-flexible homo-polymer chain in the two and three dimensions using fully directed self-avoiding walk lattice model. The defects are located along a line and these defects are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-23 Pramod Kumar Mishra

Recent studies have established a connection between the macroscopic mechanical response of polymeric materials and the statistics of the shortest path (SP) length between distant nodes in the polymer network. Since these statistics can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhenyuan Zhang , Shaswat Mohanty , Jose Blanchet , Wei Cai

We present a model for semiflexible polymers in Hamiltonian formulation which interpolates between a Rouse chain and worm-like chain. Both models are realized as limits for the parameters. The model parameters can also be chosen to match…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Gerard T. Barkema , J. M. J. van Leeuwen

Brownian motion is a continuum scaling limit for a wide class of random processes, and there has been great success in developing a theory for its properties (such as distribution functions or regularity) and expanding the breadth of its…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Ivan Corwin

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

We use the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) to compute the structure factor, S(q), of a solution of chains interacting through a soft and short range repulsive potential V. Above a threshold polymer concentration, whose magnitude is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Massiera , E. Pitard , L. Ramos , C. Ligoure

We use a Hamiltonian (transition matrix) description of height-restricted Dyck paths on the plane in which generating functions for the paths arise as matrix elements of the propagator to evaluate the length and area generating function for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Stéphane Ouvry , Alexios P. Polychronakos

We develop a theory describing density profile of the semi-flexible polymers absorbed onto a planar surface. The theoretical analysis consists of two parts. As a first part, we calculate a density profile of the adsorbed polymers by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-09 F. Semeriyanov , A. I. Chervanyov , G. Heinrich

We seek to infer the parameters of an ergodic Markov process from samples taken independently from the steady state. Our focus is on non-equilibrium processes, where the steady state is not described by the Boltzmann measure, but is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-19 Simon Lee Dettmer , Johannes Berg

We propose a novel combinatorial algorithm for efficient generation of Hamiltonian walks and cycles on a cubic lattice, modeling the conformations of lattice toy proteins. Through extensive tests on small lattices (allowing complete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rhonald Lua , Alexander L. Borovinskiy , Alexander Yu. Grosberg

We consider the point-to-point log-gamma polymer of length $2N$ in a half-space with i.i.d. $\operatorname{Gamma}^{-1}(2\theta)$ distributed bulk weights and i.i.d. $\operatorname{Gamma}^{-1}(\alpha+\theta)$ distributed boundary weights for…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Guillaume Barraquand , Ivan Corwin , Sayan Das

We review recent progress on the theory of dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore based on the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory. We investigate both pore-driven translocation of flexible and a semi-flexible polymers,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-16 Jalal Sarabadani , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider a general discrete model for heterogeneous semiflexible polymer chains. Both the thermal noise and the inhomogeneous character of the chain (the disorder) are modeled in terms of random rotations. We focus on the quenched…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Francesco Caravenna , Giambattista Giacomin , Massimiliano Gubinelli

A formula is derived for stiffness of a polymer chain in terms of the distribution function of end-to-end vectors. This relationship is applied to calculate the stiffness of Gaussian chains (neutral and carrying electric charges at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Drozdov

We study the thermodynamic properties of a semiflexible polymer confined inside strips of widths L<=9 defined on a square lattice. The polymer is modeled as a self-avoiding walk and a short range interaction between the monomers and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurgen F. Stilck

We extend the Rouse model of polymer dynamics to situations of non-stationary chain growth. For a dragged polymer chain of length $N(t) = t^\alpha$, we find two transitions in conformational dynamics. At $\alpha= 1/2$, the propagation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-25 Ali Malek , Reiner Kree

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 revisit the transfer-matrix approach to directed polymers in random media and show that a single ensemble of random transfer-matrix products provides a unified realization of the canonical one-point fluctuation laws in $(1+1)$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Sen Mu , Abbas Ali Saberi , Roderich Moessner , Mehran Kardar