Maximum-entropy calculation of the end-to-end distance distribution of force-stretched chains

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 8124-8132

  Dai, Luru ^a   Liu, Fei ^a   Ou Yang, Zhong Can ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROSTATICS; ENTROPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD (MEM);

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0242384198     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1610447     Document Type: Article

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