From Flexible to Stiff: Systematic Analysis of Structural Phases for Single Semiflexible Polymers
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Seaton, Daniel
Schnabel, Stefan
Landau, David P.
Bachmann, Michael
Date Issued
January 2013
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Seaton, Daniel T. et al. “From Flexible to Stiff: Systematic Analysis of Structural Phases for Single Semiflexible Polymers.” Physical Review Letters 110.2 (2013). ©2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Inspired by recent studies revealing unexpected pliability of semiflexible biomolecules like RNA and DNA, we systematically investigate the range of structural phases by means of a simple generic polymer model. Using a two-dimensional variant of Wang-Landau sampling to explore the conformational space in energy and stiffness within a single simulation, we identify the entire diversity of structures existing from the well-studied limit of flexible polymers to that of wormlike chains. We also discuss, in detail, the influence of finite-size effects in the formation of crystalline structures that are virtually inaccessible via conventional computational approaches.
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028103
