Polymer Dynamics in Repton Model at Large Fields

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2003-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310528v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

18 pages, 12 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1687321

Polymer dynamics at large fields in Rubinstein-Duke repton model is investigated theoretically. Simple diagrammatic approach and analogy with asymmetric simple exclusion models are used to analyze the reptation dynamics of polymers. It is found that for polyelectrolytes the drift velocity decreases exponentially as a function of the external field with an exponent depending on polymer size and parity, while for polyampholytes the drift velocity is independent of polymer chain size. However, for polymers, consisting of charged and neutral blocks, the drift velocity approaches the constant limit which is determined by the size of the neutral block. The theoretical arguments are supported by extensive numerical calculations by means of density-matrix renormalization group techniques.

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