2006/05/29 by Angelo Cacciuto, Erik Luijten
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chain (unit) #Classical mechanics #Geometry #Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior #Materials science #Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies #Nanotechnology #Nonlinear system #Physics #Polymer #Polymerization #Quantum mechanics #Scaling #Scaling law #Simple (philosophy) #Statistical physics #Thermal properties of materials #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.96.238104
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 238104 (2006) · Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
arxiv created 2006/05/29 · openalex publication_date 2006/06/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider the escape of a flexible, self-avoiding polymer chain out of a confined geometry. By means of simulations, we demonstrate that the translocation time can be described by a simple scaling law that exhibits a nonlinear dependence on the degree of polymerization and that is sensitive to the nature of the confining geometry. These results contradict earlier predictions but are in agreement with recently confirmed geometry-dependent expressions for the free energy of confinement.