Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-04-06
J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P06011
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
19 pages, 13 figures, 14 figure files; abstract + introduction + Tables I and II provide a good synopsis of this long paper; m
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2010/06/P06011
Any first course on polymer physics teaches that the dynamics of a tagged monomer of a polymer is anomalously subdiffusive, i.e., the mean-square displacement of a tagged monomer increases as $t^\alpha$ for some $\alpha<1$ until the terminal relaxation time $\tau$ of the polymer. Beyond time $\tau$ the motion of the tagged monomer becomes diffusive. Classical examples of anomalous dynamics in polymer physics are single polymeric systems, such as phantom Rouse, self-avoiding Rouse, self-avoiding Zimm, reptation, translocation through a narrow pore in a membrane, and many-polymeric systems such as polymer melts. In this pedagogical paper I report that all these instances of anomalous dynamics in polymeric systems are robustly characterized by power-law memory kernels within a {\it unified} Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE) scheme, and therefore, are non-Markovian. The exponents of the power-law memory kernels are related to the relaxation response of the polymers to local strains, and are derived from the equilibrium statistical physics of polymers. The anomalous dynamics of a tagged monomer of a polymer in these systems is then reproduced from the power-law memory kernels of the GLE via the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). Using this GLE formulation I further show that the characteristics of the drifts caused by a (weak) applied field on these polymeric systems are also obtained from the corresponding memory kernels.
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