Tightness of knots in a polymer chain

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

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Zheng, Xiaozhong ^a   Vologodskii, Alexander ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CHAIN CONTOURS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; FAST PROCESS; KNOT SIZE; LOCAL MINIMUMS; POLYMER CHAINS; SPONTANEOUS EXPANSION; UMBRELLA SAMPLING; WORMLIKE CHAIN;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FREE ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77951702726     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041806     Document Type: Article

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