Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume
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Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume.
It is nontrivial whether the average size of a ring polymer should become smaller or larger under a topological constraint. Making use of some knot invariants, we numerically evaluate the mean-square radius of gyration for ring polymers having a fixed knot type, where the ring polymers are given by self-avoiding polygons consisting of freely jointed hard cylinders. We obtain plots of the gyrati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.020801