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Chatelain C, Kantor Y, Kardar M. Probability distributions for polymer translocation. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008;78(2):021129doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129.
Chatelain, C., Kantor, Y., & Kardar, M. (2008). Probability distributions for polymer translocation. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 78(2), 021129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129
Chatelain, Clément, et al. "Probability distributions for polymer translocation." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics vol. 78,2 (2008): 021129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129
Chatelain C, Kantor Y, Kardar M. Probability distributions for polymer translocation. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Aug;78(2):021129. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129. Epub 2008 Aug 21. PMID: 18850808.
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Aug;78(2):021129. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129. Epub 2008 Aug 21.

Probability distributions for polymer translocation.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Clément Chatelain, Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar

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  1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

PMID: 18850808 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021129

Abstract

We study the passage (translocation) of a self-avoiding polymer through a membrane pore in two dimensions. In particular, we numerically measure the probability distribution Q(T) of the translocation time T, and the distribution P(s,t) of the translocation coordinate s at various times t. When scaled with the mean translocation time T , Q(T) becomes independent of polymer length, and decays exponentially for large T. The probability P(s,t) is well described by a Gaussian at short times, with a variance of s that grows subdiffusively as talpha with alpha approximately 0.8. For times exceeding T , P(s,t) of the polymers that have not yet finished their translocation has a nontrivial stable shape.

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