Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-03-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Progress of Theoretical Physics
Scientific paper
The interplay between the topological and geometrical properties of a polymer ring can be clarified by establishing the entanglement trapped in any portion (arc) of the ring. The task requires to close the open arcs into a ring, and the resulting topological state may depend on the specific closure scheme that is followed. To understand the impact of this ambiguity in contexts of practical interest, such as knot localization in a ring with non trivial topology, we apply various closure schemes to model ring polymers. The rings have the same length and topological state (a trefoil knot) but have different degree of compactness. The comparison suggests that a novel method, termed the minimally-interfering closure, can be profitably used to characterize the arc entanglement in a robust and computationally-efficient way. This closure method is finally applied to the knot localization problem which is tackled using two different localization schemes based on top-down or bottom-up searches.
Micheletti Cristian
Orlandini Enzo
Tubiana Luca
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