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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
Published on: September 26, 2016
Critical evaluation of the computational methods used in the forced polymer translocation
V V Lehtola1, R P Linna, K Kaski
1Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Helsinki University of Technology, P. O. Box 9203, FIN-02150 TKK, Finland.
Abstract:
In forced polymer translocation, the average translocation time tau scales with respect to pore force f and polymer length N as tau approximately f;{-1}N;{beta} . We demonstrate that an artifact in the Metropolis Monte Carlo method resulting in breakage of the force scaling with large f may be responsible for some of the controversies between different computationally obtained results and also between computational and experimental results. Using Langevin dynamics simulations we show that the scaling exponent beta

