Polymer translocation: the first two decades and the recent diversification

VV Palyulin, T Ala-Nissila, R Metzler - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological
physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 …

Single-polymer dynamics under constraints: scaling theory and computer experiment

A Milchev - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The relaxation, diffusion and translocation dynamics of single linear polymer chains in
confinement is briefly reviewed with emphasis on the comparison between theoretical …

Unifying model of driven polymer translocation

T Ikonen, A Bhattacharya, T Ala-Nissila, W Sung - Physical Review E …, 2012 - APS
We present a Brownian dynamics model of driven polymer translocation, in which
nonequilibrium memory effects arising from tension propagation (TP) along the cis side …

Sucking genes into pores: Insight into driven translocation

T Sakaue - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
Flexible polymers such as long DNA, RNA molecules, and proteins, can pass through a
narrow pore whose size is comparable to their molecular thickness. We highlight the …

Driven polymer translocation through nanopores: Slow-vs.-fast dynamics

K Luo, T Ala-Nissila, SC Ying, R Metzler - Europhysics letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through nanopores under external
driving by 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations, focusing on the scaling of the average …

Influence of non-universal effects on dynamical scaling in driven polymer translocation

T Ikonen, A Bhattacharya, T Ala-Nissila… - The Journal of chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We study the dynamics of driven polymer translocation using both molecular dynamics (MD)
simulations and a theoretical model based on the non-equilibrium tension propagation on …

Iso-flux tension propagation theory of driven polymer translocation: The role of initial configurations

J Sarabadani, T Ikonen, T Ala-Nissila - The Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the dynamics of pore-driven polymer translocation by theoretical analysis
and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Using the tension propagation theory within the …

Process time distribution of driven polymer transport

T Saito, T Sakaue - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
We discuss the temporal distribution of dynamic processes in driven polymer transport
inherent to flexible chains due to stochastic tension propagation. The stochasticity originates …

Dynamical diagram and scaling in polymer driven translocation

T Saito, T Sakaue - The European Physical Journal E, 2011 - Springer
By analyzing the real space non-equilibrium dynamics of polymers, we elucidate the physics
of driven translocation and propose its dynamical scaling scenario analogous to that in the …

Scaling exponents of forced polymer translocation through a nanopore

A Bhattacharya, WH Morrison, K Luo… - The European Physical …, 2009 - Springer
We investigate several properties of a translocating homopolymer through a thin pore driven
by an external field present inside the pore only using Langevin Dynamics (LD) simulations …