BARC/PUB/2002/0219

 
 

Diffusion influenced end-to-end reaction of a flexible polymer chain: The memory effect

 
     
 
Author(s)

Bandyopadhyay, T.; Ghosh, S. K.
(RC&CDD)

Source

Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002. Vol. 116 (10): pp. 4366-4369

ABSTRACT

The end-to-end diffusion dynamics of an ideal Rouse chain in solution, as estimated by fluorescence resonance energy transfer between the chain ends via Fo rster mechanism, is investigated theoretically through a non-Markovian reaction-diffusion equation. The resulting equation, with as well as without the memory term included, is solved numerically and the calculated survival probability, especially in the presence of memory term, compares extremely well with the recently reported Brownian dynamics simulation data for a variety of choice of Fo rster transfer parameters.

 
 
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