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Title: Triple minima in the free energy of semiflexible polymers
Authors: Dhar, Abhishek
Chaudhuri, Debasish
Issue Date: 5-Aug-2002
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Citation: Physical Review Letters, 2002, Vol.89, 065502
Abstract: We study the free energy of the worm-like-chain model, in the constant-extension ensemble, as a function of the stiffness λ for finite chains of length L. We find that the polymer properties obtained in this ensemble are qualitatively different from those obtained using constant-force ensembles. In particular, we find that as we change the stiffness parameter, t=L/λ, the polymer makes a transition from the flexible to the rigid phase and there is an intermediate regime of parameter values where the free energy has three minima and both phases are stable. This leads to interesting features in the force-extension curves.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1221
ISSN: 0031-9007
1079-7114 (online)
Alternative Location: http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/i6/e065502
Copyright: (2002) by the American Physical Society
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