2015/10/27 by Eduardo Dagrosa, Aleksander L Owczarek, A L Owczarek +4
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry #FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.07960
18 pages, 12 figures
openalex publication_date 2015/10/27 · arxiv created 2016/10/27 · arxiv updated 2016/10/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
When double stranded DNA is turned in experiments it undergoes a transition. We use an interacting self-avoiding walk on a three-dimensional fcc lattice weighted by writhe to relate to these experiments and treat this problem via simulations. We provide evidence for the existence of a thermodynamic phase transition induced by writhe and examine related phase diagrams taking solvent quality and stretching into account.