Entropic competition between knots and slip-links
| dc.creator | Zandi, Roya | |
| dc.creator | Kantor, Yacov | |
| dc.creator | Kardar, Mehran | |
| dc.date | 2003-06-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:45:27Z | |
| dc.description | Using canonical Monte Carlo simulations, we introduce a new numerical procedure for comparing the entropic exponents of polymers with different constraints and/or topologies. Setting up competitions between polymer segments which can exchange monomers according to their free energies, we obtain the universal exponents of partition functions, independently of any knowledge of the non-universal part. The method is successfully tested for closed polymer loops decorated with sliding rings. We also investigate the entropic exponents of loops with a fixed knot type, in which case we are limited by strong finite--size effects. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages, 12 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306587 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306587 | |
| dc.identifier | Ari 53, 6-15 (2003) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/142970 | |
| dc.subject | Soft Condensed Matter | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.title | Entropic competition between knots and slip-links | |
| dc.type | text |