Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-04-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
19 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.70.031801
We investigate the electrostatic contribution to the persistence length of a semiflexible polymer chain whose segments interact via a screened Debye-H\" uckel dipolar interaction potential. We derive the expressions for the renormalized persistence length on the level of a 1/D-expansion method already successfully used in other contexts of polyelectrolye physics. We investigate different limiting forms of the renormalized persistence length of the dipolar chain and show that in general it depends less strongly on the screening length than in the context of a monopolar chain. We show that for a dipolar chain the electrostatic persistence length in the same regime of the parameter phase space as the original Odijk-Skolnick-Fixman (OSF) form for a monopolar chain depends logarithmically on the screening length rather than quadratically. This can be understood solely on the basis of a swifter decay of the dipolar interactions with separation compared to the monopolar electrostatic interactions. We comment also on the general contribution of higher multipoles on the electrostatic renormalization of the bending rigidity.
Podgornik Rudolf
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