Journal
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac4924
Keywords
anomalous diffusion; polymers; critical phenomena
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- University of Padova [BIRD191017]
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We investigate the anomalous behavior of the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of a polymer center of mass (CM) and its microscopic cause, the polymerization/depolymerization phenomenon, when the polymer interacts with a monomer chemostat. We establish a connection to queuing theory in the mean-field limit and discover that the kurtosis of the polymer CM diverges similarly to a response function at the critical point of the system, which is applicable to various polymer dynamics models. This study provides exact solutions for both equilibrium and nonequilibrium behaviors, serving as a reference for stochastic modeling and experimental setups.
We link the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of a polymer center of mass (CM) to a microscopic cause: the polymerization/depolymerization phenomenon occurring when the polymer is in contact with a monomer chemostat. The anomalous behavior is triggered by the polymer critical point, separating the dilute and the dense phase in the grand canonical ensemble. In the mean-field limit we establish contact with queuing theory and show that the kurtosis of the polymer CM diverges alike a response function when the system becomes critical, a result which holds for general polymer dynamics (Zimm, Rouse, reptation). Both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium behaviors are solved exactly as a reference study for novel stochastic modeling and experimental setup.
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