Topological versus rheological entanglement length in primitive path analysis protocols

Details Topological versus rheological entanglement length in primitive path analysis protocols Topological versus rheological entanglement length in primitive path analysis protocols

2011-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/1111.4895v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

3 pages, no figures

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Primitive path analysis algorithms are now routinely employed to analyze entanglements in computer simulations of polymeric systems, but different analysis protocols result in different estimates of the entanglement length, N_e. Here we argue that standard PPA measures the rheological entanglement length, typically employed by tube models and relevant to quantitative comparisons with experiment, while codes like Z or CReTA also determine the topological entanglement length. For loosely entangled systems, a simple analogy between between phantom networks and the mesh of entangled primitive paths suggests a factor of two between the two numbers. This result is in excellent agreement with reported values for poly-ethylene, poly-butadiene and bead-spring polymer melts.

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