Brown S, Lenczycki T, Szamel G
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 May;63(5 Pt 1):052801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.052801. Epub 2001 Apr 16.
We report a computer simulation study of the influence of topological constraints on the statics and dynamics of single ring polymers and ring polymers in the melt. We show that single rings have identical static and dynamic scaling behavior regardless of the presence of topological constraints. For rings in the melt we find that the scaling behavior is significantly influenced by the presence of topological constraints.
