Formation of helical states in wormlike polymer chains

Details Formation of helical states in wormlike polymer chains Formation of helical states in wormlike polymer chains

1998-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804178v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 2 figures, Submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3880

We propose a potential for wormlike polymer chains which can be used to model the low-temperature conformational structures. We successfully reproduced helix ground states up to 6.5 helical loops, using the multicanonical Monte Carlo simulation method. We demonstrate that the coil-helix transition involves four distinct phases: coil(gaslike), collapsed globular(liquidlike), and two helical phases I and II (both solidlike). The helix I phase is characterized by a helical structure with dangling loose ends, and the helix II phase corresponds to a near perfect helix ordering in the entire crystallized chain.

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