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Knotted globular ring polymers: how topology affects statistics and thermodynamics
Marco Baiesi, Enzo Orlandini, Attilio L. Stella
The statistical mechanics of a long knotted collapsed polymer is determined by a free-energy with a knot-dependent subleading term, which is linked to the length of the shortest po…
Rings in Random Environments: Sensing Disorder Through Topology
Davide Michieletto, Marco Baiesi, Enzo Orlandini +1
In this paper we study the role of topology in DNA gel electrophoresis experiments via molecular dynamics simulations. The gel is modelled as a 3D array of obstacles from which hal…
Thermal response in driven diffusive systems
Marco Baiesi, Urna Basu, Christian Maes
Evaluating the linear response of a driven system to a change in environment temperature(s) is essential for understanding thermal properties of nonequilibrium systems. The system…
Rotational dynamics of entangled polymers
Jean-Charles Walter, Michiel Laleman, Marco Baiesi +1
Some recent results on the rotational dynamics of polymers are reviewed and extended. We focus here on the relaxation of a polymer, either flexible or semiflexible, initially wrapp…
Unwinding Dynamics of a Helically Wrapped Polymer
Jean-Charles Walter, Marco Baiesi, Enrico Carlon +1
We study the rotational dynamics of a flexible polymer initially wrapped around a rigid rod and unwinding from it. This dynamics is of interest in several problems in biology and c…
Models of DNA denaturation dynamics: universal properties
Marco Baiesi, Enrico Carlon
We briefly review some of the models used to describe DNA denaturation dynamics, focusing on the value of the dynamical exponent , which governs the scaling of the characteristi…