Phase diagram for unzipping DNA with long-range interactions

Details Phase diagram for unzipping DNA with long-range interactions Phase diagram for unzipping DNA with long-range interactions

2001-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108447v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figures; this version clarifies Eq. 8, and corrects errors in Fig. 2

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.032901

We present a critique and extension of the mean-field approach to the mechanical pulling transition in bound polymer systems. Our model is motivated by the theoretically and experimentally important examples of adsorbed polymers and double-stranded DNA, and we focus on the case in which quenched disorder in the sequence of monomers is unimportant for the statistical mechanics. We show how including excluded volume interactions in the model affects the phase diagram for the critical pulling force, and we predict a re-entrancy phase at low temperatures which has not been previously discussed. We also consider the case of non-equilibrium pulling, in which the external force probes the local, rather than the global structure of the dsDNA or adsorbed polymer. The dynamics of the pulling transition in such experiments could illuminate the polymer's loop structure, which depends on the nature of excluded volume interactions.

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