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Topological Dissipation as the Missing Link in Multiscale Polymer Dynamics

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-08-19 v1

Abstract

We identify topological dissipation -- momentum transport along the polymer backbone with Ising-type exponential decay (exp(Δn/nd)\sim \exp(-\Delta n/n_\text{d})) -- as the missing link connecting atomistic and mesoscale dynamics. Simulations of four polymers reveal that dynamical correlation length ndnk/3n_\text{d} \approx n_\text{k}/3 (Kuhn length nkn_\text{k}), enabling a coarse-grained framework that \emph{explicitly separates} topological (intrachain) and spatial (interchain) dissipation channels without temporal memory kernels. The approach quantitatively reproduces dynamics from segmental relaxation to chain diffusion, solving the long-standing memory preservation challenge in Markovian coarse-graining. Our results establish topology-mediated dissipation as a key mechanism for polymer dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2508.12359,
  title  = {Topological Dissipation as the Missing Link in Multiscale Polymer Dynamics},
  author = {Xu-Ze Zhang and Rui Shi and Ming-Ji Fang and Zhong-Yuan Lu and Hu-Jun Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.12359},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures

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