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排列活性对柔性Polymer坍塌动力学的影响

Effects of Alignment Activity on the Collapse Kinetics of a Flexible Polymer

Subhajit Paul, Suman Majumder, Subir K Das, Wolfhard Janke

摘要:

各种生物细丝的动力学可以在活性聚合物模型的框架内理解。在这里,我们考虑一个灵活的聚合物链的珠弹簧模型,其中的珠之间的积极相互作用是通过从Vicsek模型改编的对齐规则。在从高温线圈相到低温状态点的淬火之后,我们使用Langevin恒温器通过分子动力学(MD)模拟来研究粗化动力学。对于钝化聚合物的情况,低温平衡态是一个紧凑的小球。从我们的MD模拟结果表明,虽然球状状态也是典型的最终状态在主动的情况下,非平衡路径到达这样一个状态不同于被动的图片,由于对齐之间的相互作用珠。我们注意到,偏离中间的“珍珠项链”样的安排,这是在被动的情况下观察到的,和更细长的哑铃状结构的形成随着活动的增加而增加。此外,它似乎是,虽然一个小的主动力的珠子肯定会使粗化过程快得多,存在非单调依赖的崩溃时间上的积极相互作用的强度。我们量化这些观察通过比较的标度律的崩溃时间和增长的珍珠与被动的情况下。

英文摘要:

Dynamics of various biological filaments can be understood within the framework of active polymer models. Here we consider a bead-spring model for a flexible polymer chain in which the active interaction among the beads is introduced via an alignment rule adapted from the Vicsek model. Following a quench from the high-temperature coil phase to a low-temperature state point, we study the coarsening kinetics via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the Langevin thermostat. For the passive polymer case the low-temperature equilibrium state is a compact globule. Results from our MD simulations reveal that though the globular state is also the typical final state in the active case, the nonequilibrium pathways to arrive at such a state differ from the passive picture due to the alignment interaction among the beads. We notice that deviations from the intermediate "pearl-necklace"-like arrangement, that is observed in the passive case, and the formation of more elongated dumbbell-like structures increase with increasing activity. Furthermore, it appears that while a small active force on the beads certainly makes the coarsening process much faster, there exists nonmonotonic dependence of the collapse time on the strength of active interaction. We quantify these observations by comparing the scaling laws for the collapse time and growth of pearls with the passive case.

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