1997/05/31 by Tanniemola B. Liverpool, T. B. Liverpool, Ramin Golestanian +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.80.405
published as Physical Review Letters, Vol. 80, pg 405 (1998) · 4 pages, 3 figures; final version for publication - slight modifications to text and figures
arxiv created 1998/01/07 · openalex publication_date 1998/01/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We study the statistical mechanics of double-stranded semi-flexible polymers using both analytical techniques and simulation. We find a transition at some finite temperature, from a type of short range order to a fundamentally different sort of short range order. In the high temperature regime, the 2-point correlation functions of the object are identical to worm-like chains, while in the low temperature regime they are different due to a twist structure. In the low temperature phase, the polymers develop a kink-rod structure which could clarify some recent puzzling experiments on actin.