Talk
Tension Dynamics in Stiff Polymers
- Klaus Kroy (Universität Leipzig)
Abstract
The non-linear dynamic response of polymers is dominated by the non-equilibrium phenomenon of tension propagation, which is e.g. pertinent to DNA micro-manipulations and mechanical signal transduction through the cytoskeleton. I will sketch how the surprisingly rich deterministic response emerges from the underlying stochastic differential equations via a scale separation between conformational and tensile dynamics.