{
  "id": "1109.5658",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2011-09-26T18:09:45.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-12-13T22:00:30.000Z",
  "title": "Entropic force of polymers on a cone tip",
  "authors": [
    "Mohammad F. Maghrebi",
    "Yacov Kantor",
    "Mehran Kardar"
  ],
  "journal": "EPL 96 6 (2011) 66002",
  "doi": "10.1209/0295-5075/96/66002",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider polymers attached to the tip of a cone, and the resulting force due to entropy loss on approaching a plate (or another cone). At separations shorter than the polymer radius of gyration R_g, the only relevant length scale is the tip-plate (or tip-tip) separation h, and the entropic force is given by F=A kT/h. The universal amplitude A can be related to (geometry dependent) correlation exponents of long polymers. We compute A for phantom polymers, and for self-avoiding (including star) polymers by epsilon-expansion, as well as by numerical simulations in 3 dimensions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-12-13T22:00:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "entropic force",
      "cone tip",
      "relevant length scale",
      "polymer radius",
      "entropy loss"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "EPL (Europhysics Letters)",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 96,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": 66002
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011EL.....9666002M"
    }
  }
}