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@ARTICLE{Burkhardt:11458,
author = {Burkhardt, T.W. and Yang, Y. and Gompper, G.},
title = {{F}luctuations of a long, semiflexible polymer in a narrow
channel},
journal = {Physical review / E},
volume = {82},
number = {4},
issn = {1539-3755},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {PreJuSER-11458},
pages = {041801},
year = {2010},
note = {T. W. B. thanks Theo Odijk for correspondence, Thomas Pfohl
for sending the experimental data considered in Sec. IV,
Dieter Forster for a helpful discussion, and Robert Intemann
for help with MATHEMATICA. Y.Y. acknowledges financial
support from the International Helmholtz Research School
"BioSoft."},
abstract = {We consider an inextensible, semiflexible polymer or
wormlike chain, with persistence length P and contour length
L, fluctuating in a cylindrical channel of diameter D. In
the regime D << P << L, corresponding to a long, tightly
confined polymer, the average length of the channel <
R-parallel to > occupied by the polymer and the mean-square
deviation from the average vary as < R-parallel to > =
[1-alpha(o)(D/P)(2/3)]L and <Delta R-parallel to(2)> =
beta(o)(D-2/P)L, respectively, where alpha(o) and beta(o)
are dimensionless amplitudes. In earlier work we determined
alpha(o) and the analogous amplitude alpha(square) for a
channel with a rectangular cross section from simulations of
very long chains. In this paper, we estimate beta(o) and
beta(square) from the simulations. The estimates are
compared with exact analytical results for a semiflexible
polymer confined in the transverse direction by a parabolic
potential instead of a channel and with a recent experiment.
For the parabolic confining potential we also obtain a
simple analytic result for the distribution of R-parallel to
or radial distribution function, which is asymptotically
exact for large L and has the skewed shape seen
experimentally.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IFF-2 / IAS-2 / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB782 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-2-20090406 /
$I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {BioSoft: Makromolekulare Systeme und biologische
Informationsverarbeitung},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK505},
shelfmark = {Physics, Fluids $\&$ Plasmas / Physics, Mathematical},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000282360900002},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.82.041801},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/11458},
}