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Area of Science:

  • Physics
  • Biophysics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Filaments are ubiquitous in biological systems and often subjected to distributed forces.
  • Understanding their thermo-mechanical properties is crucial for biological and material applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the thermo-mechanical properties of extensible, thermally fluctuating elastic filaments under distributed forces.
  • To analyze the impact of distributed loads on filament behavior and thermal fluctuations.

Main Methods:

  • Solving the ground state of the filament.
  • Investigating thermal fluctuations around the ground state.
  • Discretizing the filament and approximating its energy to quadratic order.
  • Evaluating the partition function using multi-dimensional Gaussian integrals.

Main Results:

  • A filament under uniform tangential force is equivalent to one with an end-to-end applied force.
  • Filaments under distributed loads exhibit larger thermal fluctuations than those with equivalent end loads.
  • Results align with continuum theory for continuous rods.

Conclusions:

  • Distributed forces significantly influence filament behavior and increase thermal fluctuations.
  • The developed model provides insights into DNA stretching and fluctuation in microfluidic channels.
  • This work offers a framework for analyzing complex filament systems in various scientific domains.