Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-08-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
7 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
The statistical mechanics of a linear non-interacting polymer chain with a large number of monomers is considered with fixed angular momentum. The radius of gyration for a linear polymer is derived exactly by functional integration. This result is then compared to simulations done with a large number of non-interacting rigid links at fixed angular momentum. The simulation agrees with the theory up to finite size corrections. The simulations are also used to investigate the anisotropic nature of a spinning polymer. We find universal scaling of the polymer size along the direction of the angular momentum, as a function of rescaled angular momentum.
Brunner Matthew
Deutsch Joshua M.
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