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arXiv 1502.05737cond-mat.soft
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Polymer移入和移出椭球腔

Polymer translocation into and out of an ellipsoidal cavity

James M. Polson

摘要:

采用蒙特卡罗模拟研究了聚合物通过窄孔进入和离开椭球腔的易位。我们测量的聚合物自由能F作为一个函数的易位坐标,s,定义为已进入腔的键的数量。为了研究聚合物插入,我们考虑的情况下,驱动力作用于单体内的孔,以及单体吸引到腔壁。我们研究的变化F(S)的形状各向异性和体积的空腔,聚合物的长度,和驱动插入的相互作用的强度的变化。对于非热系统,自由能函数进行了分析,使用缩放的方法,在那里我们处理的聚合物的受限部分是在半稀释制度。自由能函数与Fokker-Planck方程一起用于测量平均易位时间以及易位时间分布。我们发现,聚合物的喷射和插入是更快的椭球形腔比球形腔。结果是在定性协议与朗之万动力学研究的情况下,弹射,但不插入。这种差异可能是由于FP方法中未考虑的平衡构象行为所致

英文摘要:

Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the translocation of a polymer into and out of a ellipsoidal cavity through a narrow pore. We measure the polymer free energy F as a function of a translocation coordinate, s, defined to be the number of bonds that have entered the cavity. To study polymer insertion, we consider the case of a driving force acting on monomers inside the pore, as well as monomer attraction to the cavity wall. We examine the changes to F(s) upon variation in the shape anisometry and volume of the cavity, the polymer length, and the strength of the interactions driving the insertion. For athermal systems, the free energy functions are analyzed using a scaling approach, where we treat the confined portion of the polymer to be in the semi-dilute regime. The free energy functions are used with the Fokker-Planck equation to measure mean translocation times, as well as translocation time distributions. We find that both polymer ejection and insertion is faster for ellipsoidal cavities than for spherical cavities. The results are in qualitative agreement with those of a Langevin dynamics study in the case of ejection but not for insertion. The discrepancy is likely due to out-of-equilibrium conformational behaviour that is not accounted for in the FP approach

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