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Stretching chimeric DNA: a test for the putative S-form
Stephen Whitelam, Sander Pronk, Phillip L. Geissler
Double-stranded DNA `overstretches' at a pulling force of about 65 pN, increasing in length by a factor of 1.7. The nature of the overstretched state is unknown, despite its consid…
The role of collective motion in examples of coarsening and self-assembly
Stephen Whitelam, Edward H. Feng, Michael F. Hagan +1
The simplest prescription for building a patterned structure from its constituents is to add particles, one at a time, to an appropriate template. However, self-organizing molecula…
Avoiding unphysical kinetic traps in Monte Carlo simulations of strongly attractive particles
Stephen Whitelam, Phillip L. Geissler
We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attracti…
Two-stage coarsening mechanism in a kinetically constrained model of an attractive colloid
Stephen Whitelam, Phillip L. Geissler
We study an attractive version of the East model using the real-space renormalization group (RG) introduced by Stella et al. The former is a kinetically constrained model with an I…
Renormalization group study of a kinetically constrained model for strong glasses
Stephen Whitelam, Ludovic Berthier, Juan P. Garrahan
We derive a dynamic field theory for a kinetically constrained model, based on the Fredrickson--Andersen model, which we expect to describe the properties of an Arrhenius (strong)…
Facilitated spin models in one dimension: a real-space renormalization group study
Stephen Whitelam, Juan P. Garrahan
We use a real-space renormalization group (RSRG) to study the low temperature dynamics of kinetically constrained Ising chains (KCICs). We consider the cases of the Fredrickson-And…