Monday, 31 October 2005
148j
Helical Structure from an Isotropic Homopolymer Model
Victor R. Vasquez1, Leo Lue
2, James Magee
2, and Jim Warwicker
3. (1) University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Mail Stop 170, Reno, NV 89557-0136, (2) School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom, (3) Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom
We present Monte Carlo simulation results for a square-well homopolymer model at different bond lengths. The model only contains isotropic interactions, which under appropriate conditions the system shows spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking meaning that the chain exists either in a left- or right handed helical structure. We investigate how this behaviour depends upon the ratio between bond length and monomer radius.
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