dc.contributor.author | Faghfoor Maghrebi, Mohammad | |
dc.contributor.author | Kantor, Yacov | |
dc.contributor.author | Kardar, Mehran | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-24T17:08:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-24T17:08:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-12 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011-09 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0295-5075 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1286-4854 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76595 | |
dc.description.abstract | We consider polymers attached to the tip of a cone, and the resulting force due to entropy loss on approaching a plate (or another cone). At separations shorter than the polymer radius of gyration Rg, the only relevant length scale is the tip-plate (or tip-tip) separation h, and the entropic force is given by F=Ak[subscript B]T/h. The universal amplitude A can be related to (geometry dependent) correlation exponents of long polymers. We compute A for phantom polymers, and for self-avoiding (including star) polymers by epsilon-expansion, as well as by numerical simulations in 3 dimensions. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DMR-08-03315) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY05-51164) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/66002 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | arXiv | en_US |
dc.title | Entropic force of polymers on a cone tip | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Maghrebi, Mohammad F., Yacov Kantor, and Mehran Kardar. “Entropic Force of Polymers on a Cone Tip.” EPL (Europhysics Letters) 96.6 (2011): 66002. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Faghfoor Maghrebi, Mohammad | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Kardar, Mehran | |
dc.relation.journal | Europhysics Letters | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Maghrebi, Mohammad F.; Kantor, Yacov; Kardar, Mehran | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912 | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |