Growth and dissolution of macromolecular Markov chains

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1532-XMaRDI QIDQ315638zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Gaspard

Publication date 22 September 2016

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08011

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theoryliving copolymerizationnonequilibrium thermodynamicssequence disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: The kinetics and thermodynamics of free living copolymerization are studied for processes with rates depending on k monomeric units of the macromolecular chain behind the unit that is attached or detached. In this case, the sequence of monomeric units in the growing copolymer is a kth-order Markov chain. In the regime of steady growth, the statistical properties of the sequence are determined analytically in terms of the attachment and detachment rates. In this way, the mean growth velocity as well as the thermodynamic entropy production and the sequence disorder can be calculated systematically. These different properties are also investigated in the regime of depolymerization where the macromolecular chain is dissolved by the surrounding solution. In this regime, the entropy production is shown to satisfy Landauer's principle.

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