Helical states of nonlocally interacting molecules and their linear stability: geometric approach

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2010-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/1006.1086v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 055201

Physics

Mathematical Physics

34 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/44/5/055201

The equations for strands of rigid charge configurations interacting nonlocally are formulated on the special Euclidean group, SE(3), which naturally generates helical conformations. Helical stationary shapes are found by minimizing the energy for rigid charge configurations positioned along an infinitely long molecule with charges that are off-axis. The classical energy landscape for such a molecule is complex with a large number of energy minima, even when limited to helical shapes. The question of linear stability and selection of stationary shapes is studied using an SE(3) method that naturally accounts for the helical geometry. We investigate the linear stability of a general helical polymer that possesses torque-inducing non-local self-interactions and find the exact dispersion relation for the stability of the helical shapes with an arbitrary interaction potential. We explicitly determine the linearization operators and compute the numerical stability for the particular example of a linear polymer comprising a flexible rod with a repeated configuration of two equal and opposite off-axis charges, thereby showing that even in this simple case the non-local terms can induce instability that leads to the rod assuming helical shapes.

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