2002/03/25 by Jürgen F. Stilck, Jurgen F. Stilck, Stilck, Jurgen F.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0203520
5 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2002/03/25 · openalex publication_date 2002/03/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the thermodynamic properties of a semiflexible polymer confined inside strips of widths L<=9 defined on a square lattice. The polymer is modeled as a self-avoiding walk and a short range interaction between the monomers and the walls is included through an energy e associated to each monomer placed on one of the walls. Also, an additional energy is associated to each elementary bend of the walk. The free energy of the model is obtained exactly through a transfer matrix formalism. The profile of the monomer density and the force on the walls are obtained. We notice that as the bending energy is decreased, the range of values of e for which the density profile is neither convex nor concave increases, and for sufficiently attracting walls (e<0) we find that in general the attractive force is maximum for situations where the bends are favored.