Exploring the applications of fractional calculus: Hierarchically built semiflexible polymers

Florian Fürstenberg, Maxim Dolgushev and Alexander Blumen

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2015, vol. 81, issue PB, 527-533

Abstract: In this article we study, through extensions of the generalized Gaussian scheme, the dynamics of semiflexible treelike polymers under the influence of external forces acting on particular (say, charged) monomers. Semiflexibility is introduced following our previous work (Dolgushev and Blumen, 2009 [15]), a procedure which allows one to study treelike structures with arbitrary stiffness and branching. Exemplarily, we illustrate the procedure using linear chains and hyperbranched polymers modeled through Vicsek fractals, and obtain in every case the monomer displacement averaged over the structure. Anomalous behavior manifests itself in the intermediate time region, where the different fractal architectures show distinct scaling behaviors. These behaviors are due to the power law behavior of the spectral density and lead, for arbitrary pulling forces, based on causality and the linear superposition principle, to fractional calculus expressions, in accordance to former phenomenological fractional laws in polymer physics.

Keywords: Anomalous diffusion; Fractals; Polymers; Hyperbranched; Semiflexible (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2015.07.006

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