Author(s): Daniel M. Sussman and Kenneth S. Schweizer
We qualitatively extend a microscopic dynamical theory for the transverse confinement of infinitely thin rigid rods to study topologically entangled melts of flexible polymer chains. Our main result treats coils as ideal random walks of self-consistently determined primitive-path (PP) steps and exac…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 168306] Published Fri Oct 19, 2012