Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-6-2002

Abstract

The equilibrium shapes of prime and composite knots were studied. It was showed that the topological details of prime knots were localized on a small portion of the larger ring polymer due to self-avoiding effects. The original knot configuration could assume a hierarchy of contracted shape, the dominating one given by one small loop, within this region. For the flat trefoil knot, this hierarchy was studied in detail and corroborated by Monte Carlo simulations.

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© Physical Review Letters. Original version available at: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.188101

First Page

1881011

Last Page

1881014

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.188101

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