Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 16432-16437

  Raymer, Dorian M ^a   Smith, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Jones polynomial; Knot energy; Knot theory; Random walk; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 36749095666     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611320104     Document Type: Article

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