Counting polymer knots to find the entanglement length

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 10676-10693

  Qin, Jian ^a   Milner, Scott T ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; JONES POLYNOMIAL; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; POLYMER CHAINS; TOPOLOGICAL ENTROPY; TOPOLOGICAL STATE; TRANSVERSE MOTIONS; TUBE DIAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84255205318     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05972f     Document Type: Article

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