Comment on "Elasticity Model of a Supercoiled DNA Molecule"

V. Rossetto (1) , A. C. Maggs (1)

1 LPCT - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique

We perform simulations to numerically study the writhe distribution of a stiff polymer. We compare with analytic results of Bouchiat and Mezard (PRL 80 1556- (1998); cond-mat/9706050).

Domaines: Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft]; Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

V. Rossetto, A. C. Maggs. Comment on "Elasticity Model of a Supercoiled DNA Molecule". 2001. ⟨hal-00125893⟩