On two intrinsic length scales in polymer physics: topological constraints vs. entanglement length

Details On two intrinsic length scales in polymer physics: topological constraints vs. entanglement length On two intrinsic length scales in polymer physics: topological constraints vs. entanglement length

2000-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006464v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages. 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2000-00452-6

The interplay of topological constraints, excluded volume interactions, persistence length and dynamical entanglement length in solutions and melts of linear chains and ring polymers is investigated by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a three dimensional lattice model. In unknotted and unconcatenated rings, topological constraints manifest themselves in the static properties above a typical length scale $dt \sim 1/\sqrt{l\phi}$ ($\phi$ being the volume fraction, $l$ the mean bond length). Although one might expect that the same topological length will play a role in the dynamics of entangled polymers, we show that this is not the case. Instead, a different intrinsic length de, which scales like excluded volume blob size $\xi$, governs the scaling of the dynamical properties of both linear chains and rings.

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