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Linear viscoelasticity of a single semiflexible polymer with internal friction
1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. hiraiwa@ton.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The linear viscoelastic behaviors of single semiflexible chains with internal friction are studied based on the wormlike-chain model. It is shown that the frequency dependence of the complex compliance in the high frequency limit is the same as that of the Voigt model. This asymptotic behavior appears also for the Rouse model with internal friction. We derive the characteristic times for both the high frequency limit and the low frequency limit and compare the results with those obtained by Khatri et al.
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