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Using molecular dynamics simulation of a standard bead-spring model we investigate the density crossover scaling of strictly two-dimensional self-avoiding polymer chains focusing on properties related to the contact exponent set by the…

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Molecular ecology uses molecular genetic data to answer traditional ecological questions in biogeography and biodiversity among others. Several ecological principles, such as the niche hypothesis and the competitive exclusions, are based on…

A methodology for the statistical mechanical analysis of polymeric chains under tension introduced previously is extended to include torque. The response of individual bonds between monomers or of entire groups of monomers to a combination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Aaron C. Meyer , Michael Karbach , Ping Lu , Gerhard Müller

A coarse-graining strategy for dilute and semi-dilute solutions of interacting polymers, and of colloid polymer mixtures is briefly described. Monomer degrees of freedom are traced out to derive an effective, state dependent pair potential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -P. Hansen , C. I. Addison , A. A. Louis

Chain molecules play a key role in the polymer field and in living cells. Our focus is on a new homopolymer model of a linear chain molecule subject to an attractive self-interaction promoting compactness. We analyze the model using simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-14 Tatjana Škrbić , Trinh Xuan Hoang , Achille Giacometti , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

We examine the statistics of conformations of a linear polymer in a solvent. The polymer is allowed to form double polymers. We closely follow a classical technique to derive a field theory for the problem from an $O\left(n\right)$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-18 Richard Dengler

The contact formalism, a useful tool for analyzing short-range correlations, is generalized here for systems with coupled channels, such as in nuclear physics. The relevant asymptotic form is presented and contact matrices are defined.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Ronen Weiss , Nir Barnea

We discuss a discrete approach to the multiscale reductive perturbative method and apply it to a biatomic chain with a nonlinear interaction between the atoms. This system is important to describe the time evolution of localized solitonic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-23 G. A. Cassatella Contra , D. Levi

We report benchmark results for one-dimensional (1D) atomic and molecular systems interacting via the Coulomb operator $|x|^{-1}$. Using various wavefunction-type approaches, such as Hartree-Fock theory, second- and third-order…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pierre-François Loos , Caleb J. Ball , Peter M. W. Gill

While stretching of most polymer chains leads to rather featureless force-extension diagrams, some, notably DNA, exhibit non-trivial behavior with a distinct plateau region. Here we propose a unified theory that connects force-extension…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Alexander V. Savin , Mikhail A. Mazo , Irina P. Kikot , Alexey V. Onufriev

A multiscale approach is used to simulate the translocation of DNA through a nanopore. Within this scheme, the interactions of the molecule with the surrounding fluid (solvent) are explicitly taken into account. By generating polymers of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Melchionna , Maria Fyta , Efthimios Kaxiras , Sauro Succi

We study a strongly interacting chain of anyons with fusion rules determined by SO(5)2. The phase portrait is identified with a combination of numerical and analytical techniques. Several critical phases with different central charges and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-27 Peter E. Finch , Holger Frahm , Marius Lewerenz , Ashley Milsted , Tobias J. Osborne

We establish a hierarchical ordering of periodic orbits in a strongly coupled multidimensional Hamiltonian system. Phase space structures can be reconstructed quantitatively from the knowledge of periodic orbits alone. We illustrate our…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gekle , J. Main , T. Bartsch , T. Uzer

In this work it is investigated general models with interactions between two canonical scalar fields and between one non-canonical (tachyon-type) and one canonical scalar field. The potentials and couplings to the gravity are selected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-15 Rudinei C. de Souza , Gilberto M. Kremer

The concept of soliton complex in a nonlinear dispersive medium is proposed. It is shown that strongly interacting identical topological solitons in the medium can form bound soliton complexes which move without radiation. This phenomenon…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail M. Bogdan , Arnold M. Kosevich , Gerard A. Maugin

We study a model for pair interaction $U$ of DNA molecules generated by the discrete dipole moments of base-pairs and the charges of phosphate groups, and find noncommutative group of eighth order ${\cal S}$ of symmetries that leave $U$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Voislav Golo , Efim Kats , Yuriy Volkov

This paper investigates the dynamical properties of Dickson polynomials over finite fields, focusing on the periodicity and structural behavior of their iterated sequences. We introduce and analyze the sequence $[D_n(x, \alpha) \mod (x^q -…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wayne Peng , Yen-Ju Chen

The thermodynamics of nucleic acid processes is heavily affected by the electric double-layer of micro-ions around the polyions. We focus here on the Coulombic contribution to the salt-polyelectrolyte preferential interaction (Donnan)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Trizac , G. Tellez

Nodal chain is a typical topological phase in nodal line semimetals. Here, we propose a new topological phase -- interlocking nodal chains, in which two sets of nodal chains are interlocked each other. It includes one- (1D), two- (2D) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Zhiwei Li , Yuee Xie1 , Po-Yao Chang , Yuanping Chen

We consider a model of a scalar field, with dispersion relation {\omega}(k), coupled to a random medium of two level atoms. We investigate the dynamics of states with at most one quanta of excitation in the system. In a high frequency…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-01 Joseph Kraisler , Joonsoo Lee
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