Wormlike chain or tense string? A question of resolution

DOI10.1007/S001610200089zbMATH Open1009.74030arXivcond-mat/0201042OpenAlexW3101238401MaRDI QIDQ699701FDOQ699701

Authors: Jean-Baptiste Fournier 

Publication date: 25 September 2002

Published in: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that a wormlike chain, i.e., a filament with a fixed contour-length S and a bending elasticity kappa, attached to a frame of length L, can be described--at low resolutions--by the same type of elastic free-energy as a tense string. The corresponding tension is calculated as a function of temperature, L, kappa and S.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201042

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zbMATH Keywords

tensionstringelastic free energywormlike chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Strings (74K05)

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