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We study the translocation of a flexible polymer through extended patterned pores using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We consider cylindrical and conical pore geometries that can be controlled by the angle of the pore apex $\alpha$.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-11 Andri Sharma , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Rajeev Kapri

We determine the scaling exponents of polymer translocation (PT) through a nanopore by extensive computer simulations of various microscopic models for chain lengths extending up to N=800 in some cases. We focus on the scaling of the…

Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the influence of polymer-pore interactions on the dynamics of biopolymer translocation through nanopores. We find that an attractive interaction can significantly change the translocation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-21 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Aniket Bhattacharya

We study the dynamics of the passage of a polymer through a membrane pore (translocation), focusing on the scaling properties with the number of monomers $N$. The natural coordinate for translocation is the number of monomers on one side of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey Chuang , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We study the energy structure and the transfer of an extra electron or hole along periodic polymers made of $N$ monomers, with a repetition unit made of $P$ monomers, using a Tight-Binding wire model, where a site is a monomer (e.g., in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-19 K. Lambropoulos , C. Vantaraki , P. Bilia , M. Mantela , C. Simserides

We study the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain threaded through a nanopore by an external force. By means of diverse methods (scaling arguments, fractional calculus and Monte Carlo simulation) we show that the relevant dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-29 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We study the translocation of a flexible polymer through a pore in a membrane induced by its adsorption on \trans side of the membrane. When temperature $T$ is higher than $T_c$, the adsorption-desorption transition temperature, attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Pyeong Jun Park , Wokyung Sung

We investigate a model of chaperone-assisted polymer translocation through a nanopore in a membrane. Translocation is driven by irreversible random sequential absorption of chaperone proteins that bind to the polymer on one side of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

We suggest a theoretical description of the force-induced translocation dynamics of a polymer chain through a nanopore. Our consideration is based on the tensile (Pincus) blob picture of a pulled chain and the notion of propagating front of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-17 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

We study voltage driven translocation of a single stranded (ss) DNA through a membrane channel. Our model, based on a master equation (ME) approach, investigates the probability density function (pdf) of the translocation times, and shows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Flomenbom , J. Klafter

We consider the dynamics of pore-driven polymer translocation through a nanopore to semi-infinite space when the chain is initially confined and equilibrated in a narrow channel. To this end, we use Langevin dynamics (LD) simulations and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Soheila Emamyari , Jalal Sarabadani , Ralf Metzler , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider the translocation of a one-dimensional polymer through a pore channel helped by a motor driven by a dichotomous noise with time exponential correlation. We are interested in the study of the translocation time, mean velocity and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-01 Alessandro Fiasconaro , Juan José Mazo , Fernando Falo

We study translocation of semiflexible polymers driven by force $f_d$ inside a nanometer-scale pore using our three-dimensional Langevin dynamics model. We show that the translocation time $\tau$ increases with increasing bending rigidity…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Pauli M. Suhonen , Riku P. Linna

The effect of the microscopic structure of a pore on polymer translocation is studied using Langevin dynamics simulation, and the consequence of introducing patterned stickiness inside the pore is investigated. It is found that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-01 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

We investigate the problem of polymer translocation through a nanopore in the absence of an external driving force. To this end, we use the two-dimensional (2D) fluctuating bond model with single-segment Monte Carlo moves. To overcome the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-chen Ying

We investigate theoretically the translocation of structured RNA/DNA molecules through narrow pores which allow single but not double strands to pass. The unzipping of basepaired regions within the molecules presents significant kinetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulrich Gerland , Ralf Bundschuh , Terence Hwa

DNA translocation through nanopores is one of the most promising strategies for the next-generation sequencing technologies. Most part of experimental and numerical works has focused on polymer translocation biased by electrophoresis, where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-07 Timothée Menais

Using analytical techniques and Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a narrow channel of width $R$ embedded in two dimensions, driven by a force proportional to the number of monomers in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-26 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler

Inspired by its central role in many biological processes, the transport of biopolymers across nanoscale pores is at the heart of a single-molecule sensing technology aimed at nucleic acid and protein sequencing, as well as biomarker…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Martin Charron , Breeana Elliott , Nada Kerrouri , Liqun He , Vincent Tabard-Cossa

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