Melting of persistent double-stranded polymers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Rahi, Sahand Jamal ^a   Hertzberg, Mark Peter ^a   Kardar, Mehran ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BENDING (DEFORMATION); FORMING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MELTING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

BENDING RIGIDITIES; BENDING STIFFNESSES; BRANCH POINTS; DOUBLE STRANDS; EFFICIENT COMPUTATIONS; MELTING TRANSITIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRANSFER MATRIX TECHNIQUES; TRANSFER MATRIXES; TWO SEGMENTS;

BENDING (FORMING);

EID: 56749182519     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051910     Document Type: Article

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