Critical exponents for random knots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3858-3861

  Grosberg, Alexander Yu ^a  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

KNOTTED POLYMERS; POLYMER RING; QUENCHED TOPOLOGY;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0034292653     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3858     Document Type: Article

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