Statistics of an ideal polymer in a multistable potential: Exact solutions and instanton approximation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 12240-12249

  Mondescu, Radu P ^a,b   Muthukumar, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0001021194     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.479162     Document Type: Article

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