3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
SPOCK*: A simple program for simulating knotted and concatenated polymer rings off-lattice
Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. Piątek
The purpose of this work is to present SPOCK*, a Monte Carlo code specifically written to investigate the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of polymers in the presence of top…
cond-mat.soft2024
A contact map method to capture the features of knot conformations
Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin Radosław Piątek +1
Inspired by recent advances in the chromosome capture techniques, a method is proposed to study the structural organization of systems of polymers rings with topological constraint…
hep-th2023
Self-dual solutions of a field theory model of two linked rings
Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. Piatek
In this work the connection established in [7, 8] between a model of two linked polymers rings with fixed Gaussian linking number forming a 4-plat and the statistical mechanics of…