Polyelectrolyte persistence length: Attractive effect of counterion correlations and fluctuations
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Polyelectrolyte Persistence Length: Attractive Effect of Counterion Correlations and Fluctuations
– The persistence length of a single, strongly charged, stiff polyelectrolyte chain is investigated theoretically. Path integral formulation is used to obtain the effective electrostatic interaction between the monomers. We find significant deviations from the classical Odijk, Skolnick and Fixman (OSF) result. An induced attraction between monomers is due to thermal fluctuations and correlation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2003-00246-4