Radial distribution function for semiflexible polymers confined in microchannels
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Radial Distribution Function for Semiflexible Polymers Confined in Microchannels
An analytic expression is derived for the distribution G(~ R) of the end-to-end distance ~ R of semiflexible polymers in external potentials to elucidate the effect of confinement on the mechanical and statistical properties of biomolecules. For parabolic confinement the result is exact whereas for realistic potentials a self-consistent ansatz is developed, so that G(~ R) is given explicitly ev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/78/38001