The conformational statistics of ring polymers in melts or dense solutions is strongly affected by their quenched microscopic topological state. The effect is particularly strong for nonconcatenated unknotted rings, which are known to crumple and segregate and which have been implicated as models for the generic behavior of interphase chromosomes. Here we use a computationally efficient multiscale approach to show that melts of rings of total contour length L-r can be quantitatively mapped onto melts of interacting lattice trees with gyration radii < R-g(2) (L-r)> proportional to L-r(2 nu) and nu = 0.32 +/- 0.01.

Ring polymers in the melt state: the physics of crumpling / Rosa, A.; Everaers, R.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 112:11(2014), pp. 1-5. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.118302]

Ring polymers in the melt state: the physics of crumpling

Rosa A.;
2014-01-01

Abstract

The conformational statistics of ring polymers in melts or dense solutions is strongly affected by their quenched microscopic topological state. The effect is particularly strong for nonconcatenated unknotted rings, which are known to crumple and segregate and which have been implicated as models for the generic behavior of interphase chromosomes. Here we use a computationally efficient multiscale approach to show that melts of rings of total contour length L-r can be quantitatively mapped onto melts of interacting lattice trees with gyration radii < R-g(2) (L-r)> proportional to L-r(2 nu) and nu = 0.32 +/- 0.01.
2014
112
11
1
5
118302
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.118302
https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7641
Rosa, A.; Everaers, R.
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