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可展带的统计力学

Statistical Mechanics of Developable Ribbons

L. Giomi, L. Mahadevan

摘要:

我们研究有限宽度和非常小厚度的长可展带的统计力学。这些带状结构中的等距变形约束源于尺度的几何分离,引入了弯曲自由度和扭转自由度之间的耦合。利用分析技术和蒙特卡罗模拟,我们发现,切线-切线关联函数总是表现出振荡衰减在任何有限的温度意味着存在一个潜在的螺旋结构,即使在没有一个优先的零温扭曲。此外,还发现其持久长度比具有相同弯曲刚度的蠕虫链的持久长度大三倍以上。我们的研究结果适用于许多带状物体在聚合物物理和纳米科学,而不是由经典的蠕虫状链模型描述。

英文摘要:

We investigate the statistical mechanics of long developable ribbons of finite width and very small thickness. The constraint of isometric deformations in these ribbon-like structures that follows from the geometric separation of scales introduces a coupling between bending and torsional degrees of freedom. Using analytical techniques and Monte Carlo simulations, we find that the tangent-tangent correlation functions always exhibits an oscillatory decay at any finite temperature implying the existence of an underlying helical structure even in absence of a preferential zero-temperature twist. In addition the persistence length is found to be over three times larger than that of a wormlike chain having the same bending rigidity. Our results are applicable to many ribbon-like objects in polymer physics and nanoscience that are not described by the classical worm-like chain model.

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