Pulling Pinned Polymers and Unzipping DNA

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2000-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004423v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. _85_, 1572 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 1 EPS figure; revised references and very brief discussion of order of the transition added; to appear in Phys. Rev.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1572

We study a class of micromanipulation experiments, exemplified by the pulling apart of the two strands of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). When the pulling force is increased to a critical value, an ``unzipping'' transition occurs. For random DNA sequences with short-ranged correlations, we obtain exact results for the number of monomers liberated and the specific heat, including the critical behavior at the transition. Related systems include a random heteropolymer pulled away from an adsorbing surface and a vortex line in a type II superconductor tilted away from a fragmented columnar defect.

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