Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume

Details Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume

2001-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104022v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12pages,3figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.020801

It is nontrivial whether the average size of a ring polymer should become smaller or larger under a topological constraint. Making use of some knot invariants, we evaluate numerically the mean square radius of gyration for ring polymers having a fixed knot type, where the ring polymers are given by self-avoiding polygons consisting of freely-jointed hard cylinders. We obtain plots of the gyration radius versus the number of polygonal nodes for the trivial, trefoil and figure-eight knots. We discuss possible asymptotic behaviors of the gyration radius under the topological constraint. In the asymptotic limit, the size of a ring polymer with a given knot is larger than that of no topological constraint when the polymer is thin, and the effective expansion becomes weak when the polymer is thick enough.

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