Exactly solvable reptation model
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 39 (12), 6557-6566
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.39.6557
Abstract
We describe a reptation model applicable to long-chain polyelectrolytes, like DNA in a gel, and derive an exactly solvable master equation for the probability distribution of the chain’s extension in an applied electric field. The effect on the steady-state mobility of reduced charge at the chain’s ends is studied, and differences between the model’s steady-state probability distributions and ones derived from counting chain configurations are noted.Keywords
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