Nonequilibrium relaxation times in polymer knot groups

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 17, 2001, Pages

  Lai, Pik Yin ^a   Sheng, Yu Jane ^b   Tsao, Heng Kwong ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

POLYMER KNOT GROUPS; TOPOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0035934823     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.175503     Document Type: Article

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