The compressibility of minimal lattice knots

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2012/05/P05003zbMATH Open1456.82140arXiv1203.3212MaRDI QIDQ3301360FDOQ3301360

E. J. Janse van Rensburg, Andrew Rechnitzer

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The (isothermic) compressibility of lattice knots can be examined as a model of the effects of topology and geometry on the compressibility of ring polymers. In this paper, the compressibility of minimal length lattice knots in the simple cubic, face centered cubic and body centered cubic lattices are determined. Our results show that the compressibility is generally not monotonic, but in some cases increases with pressure. Differences of the compressibility for different knot types show that topology is a factor determining the compressibility of a lattice knot, and differences between the three lattices show that compressibility is also a function of geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3212

Recommendations

• The free energy of compressed lattice knots
• MINIMAL KNOTS IN THE CUBIC LATTICE
• On compressing discs of torus knots
• The complexity of lattice knots
• The compressibility of checkerboard surfaces of link diagrams
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1428888
• ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINIMAL LATTICE KNOTS AND MINIMAL CUBE KNOTS
• MINIMAL KNOTTED POLYGONS ON THE CUBIC LATTICE
• The Curvature of Lattice Knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Cites Work

• On the mean and variance of the writhe of random polygons
• Knots in random walks
• Knots in self-avoiding walks
• Knots
• The number of smallest knots on the cubic lattice
• MINIMAL KNOTTED POLYGONS ON THE CUBIC LATTICE
• MINIMAL KNOTS IN THE CUBIC LATTICE
• On the topology of a polymer ring
• Asymptotics of knotted lattice polygons
• The BFACF algorithm and knotted polygons
• On knots in a model for the adsorption of ring polymers
• Atmospheres of polygons and knotted polygons
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Thoughts on lattice knot statistics
• BFACF-style algorithms for polygons in the body-centered and face-centered cubic lattices
• GENERALIZED ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING OF KNOTTED POLYGONS
• Generalized atmospheric sampling of self-avoiding walks
• MINIMAL KNOTTING NUMBERS

Cited In (9)

• The stick number of rail arcs
• Topological surfaces as gridded surfaces in geometrical spaces
• Bounds for minimum step number of knots confined to tubes in the simple cubic lattice
• The tightest knot is not necessarily the smallest
• Lattice knots in a slab
• The entropic pressure of lattice knots
• Knots with compressible thin levels
• The free energy of compressed lattice knots
• Lattice stick number of knots

This page was built for publication: The compressibility of minimal lattice knots

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3301360)