Stiffness of polymer chains

Details Stiffness of polymer chains Stiffness of polymer chains

2004-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407716v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

21 pages, 6 figures

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A formula is derived for stiffness of a polymer chain in terms of the distribution function of end-to-end vectors. This relationship is applied to calculate the stiffness of Gaussian chains (neutral and carrying electric charges at the ends), chains modeled as self-avoiding random walks, as well as semi-flexible (worm-like and Dirac) chains. The effects of persistence length and Bjerrum's length on the chain stiffness are analyzed numerically. An explicit expression is developed for the radial distribution function of a chain with the maximum stiffness.

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