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Motivated by the observation of the storage of excess elastic free energy - (prestress) -- in cross linked semiflexible networks, we consider the problem of the conformational statistics of a single semiflexible polymer in a quenched random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-10 Valentin M. Slepukhin , Maximilian J. Grill , Kei W. Müller , Wolfgang A. Wall , Alex J. Levine

We define a polynomial measure of multiparticle entanglement which is scalable, i.e., which applies to any number of spin-1/2 particles. By evaluating it for three particle states, for eigenstates of the one dimensional Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 David A. Meyer , Nolan R. Wallach

We present Monte Carlo computer simulations for melts of semiflexible randomly knotted and randomly concatenated ring polymers on the fcc lattice and in slit confinement. Through systematic variation of the slit width at fixed melt density,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-06 Mattia Alberto Ubertini , Angelo Rosa

Packing under confinement could generate rich ordered structures through entropic effects, which is a fundamental problem in condensed matter, biophysics and material science. The influence of confinement to the anisotropic hard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Zhongtian Yuan , Yao Li

We study analytically and numerically the winding of directed polymers of length $t$ around each other or around a rod. Unconfined polymers in pure media have exponentially decaying winding angle distributions, the decay constant depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Barbara Drossel , Mehran Kardar

The Entanglement contour function quantifies the contribution from each degree of freedom in a region $\mathcal{A}$ to the entanglement entropy $S_{\mathcal{A}}$. Recently in \cite{Wen:2018whg} the author gave two proposals for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Qiang Wen

In this article we study from a non-perturbative point of view the entanglement of two directed polymers subjected to repulsive interactions given by a Dirac $\delta-$function potential. An exact formula of the so-called second moment of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Franco Ferrari , Vakhtang G. Rostiashvili , Thomas A. Vilgis

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

The density matrix of composite spin system is discussed in relation to the adjoint representation of unitary group U(n). The entanglement structure is introduced as an additional ingredient to the description of the linear space carrying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

Topologically constrained genome-like polymers often double-fold into tree-like configurations, which can be modelled on the level of folded (ring) polymers or on the level of the underlying random trees. For both descriptions, we have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Pieter H. W. van der Hoek , Angelo Rosa , Elham Ghobadpour , Ralf Everaers

Entangled polymers are an important class of materials for their toughness, processability, and functionalizability. However, physically detailed modeling of highly entangled polymers can prove challenging, especially as one considers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-28 Vickie Chen , Brandon Wang , Joseph D. Peterson

We study a system of two entangled spin 1/2, were the spin's are represented by a sphere model developed within the hidden measurement approach which is a generalization of the Bloch sphere representation, such that also the measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Diederik Aerts , Bart D'Hooghe

Most states in the Hilbert space are maximally entangled. This fact has proven useful to investigate - among other things - the foundations of statistical mechanics. Unfortunately, most states in the Hilbert space of a quantum many body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alioscia Hamma , Siddhartha Santra , Paolo Zanardi

We examine entanglements using monomer contacts between pairs of chains in a Brownian-dynamics simulation of a polymer melt. A map of contact positions with respect to the contacting monomer numbers (i,j) shows clustering in small regions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Ben-Naim , G. S. Grest , T. A. Witten , A. R. C. Baljon

We present a computer simulation study of the compact self-avoiding loops as regards their length and topological state. We use a Hamiltonian closed path on the cubic-shaped segment of a 3D cubic lattice as a model of a compact polymer. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Lua , N. T. Moore , A. Yu. Grosberg

We give two different, statistically consistent definitions of the length l of a prime knot tied into a polymer ring. In the good solvent regime the polymer is modelled by a self avoiding polygon of N steps on cubic lattice and l is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Marcone , E. Orlandini , A. L. Stella , F. Zonta

The sequence of random probability measures $\nu_n$ that gives a path of length $n$, $\unsur{n}$ times the sum of the random weights collected along the paths, is shown to satisfy a large deviations principle with good rate function the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-29 Philippe Carmona

This article presents the basis of a theory of entanglement. We begin with a classical theory of entangled discrete measures in Section~1. Section~2 treats quantum mechanics and discusses the statistics of bounded operators on a Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Stanley Gudder

The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of a flexible polymer tethered to a reflecting wall and subject to oscillatory linear flow are studied by numerical simulations. Polymer is confined in two dimensions and is modeled as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-30 A. Lamura

Stochastic simulations are used to characterize the knotting distributions of random ring polymers confined in spheres of various radii. The approach is based on the use of multiple Markov chains and reweighting techniques, combined with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Micheletti , D. Marenduzzo , E. Orlandini , D. W. Sumners