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| author | Matsutani, Shigeki |
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| contents | This article studies the statistical mechanics of elastica as a model of the shapes of the supercoiled DNA, and shows that its excited states can be characterized by the focusing modified KdV (MKdV) equation due to thermal fluctuation. Following the previous paper (Matsutani and Previato, Physica D 430 (2022) 133073), the hyperelliptic solutions of the focusing modified KdV (MKdV) equation of genus three are considered. There appears a pattern as a repetition of the modulation of figure-eight and the inverse 'S' as a thermal fluctuation of elastica, called the S-eight mode. Our model states that the excited states of elastica due to the thermal effect have the S-eight mode, which reproduces the shapes of the AFM image of the supercoiled DNAs observed by Japaridze et al. (Nano Lett. 17 3, (2017) 1938). |
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| spellingShingle | Statistical mechanics of elastica for the shape of supercoiled DNA: hyperelliptic elastica of genus three Matsutani, Shigeki Soft Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Biological Physics This article studies the statistical mechanics of elastica as a model of the shapes of the supercoiled DNA, and shows that its excited states can be characterized by the focusing modified KdV (MKdV) equation due to thermal fluctuation. Following the previous paper (Matsutani and Previato, Physica D 430 (2022) 133073), the hyperelliptic solutions of the focusing modified KdV (MKdV) equation of genus three are considered. There appears a pattern as a repetition of the modulation of figure-eight and the inverse 'S' as a thermal fluctuation of elastica, called the S-eight mode. Our model states that the excited states of elastica due to the thermal effect have the S-eight mode, which reproduces the shapes of the AFM image of the supercoiled DNAs observed by Japaridze et al. (Nano Lett. 17 3, (2017) 1938). |
| title | Statistical mechanics of elastica for the shape of supercoiled DNA: hyperelliptic elastica of genus three |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04260 |