The Writhe Distribution Of Stretched Polymers
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❄️ cond-mat.soft
cond-mat.stat-mechq-bio.BMquant-ph
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distributionexperimentsstretchedwritheagreementanalyticallyapproacharound
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Motivated by experiments in which single DNA molecules are stretched and twisted we consider a perturbative approach around very high forces, where we determine the writhe distribution in a simple, analytically tractable model. Our results are in agreement with recent simulations and experiments.
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