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ArticlePolymers2019

Polymer Translocation Across a Corrugated Channel: Fick⁻Jacobs Approximation Extended Beyond the Mean First-Passage Time.

Paolo Malgaretti, Gleb Oshanin

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Article in Polymers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Review
  2. Closed Formula for Transport across Constrictions.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  4. Pore shapes effects on polymer translocation.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2020
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Paolo MalgarettiMax-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Heisenbergstr. 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany. malgaretti@is.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1201-451X
Gleb OshaninSorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, LPTMC (UMR CNRS 7600), 4 Place Jussieu, CEDEX 05, 75252 Paris, France. oshanin@lptmc.jussieu.fr.

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Abstract

Polymer translocation across a corrugated channel is a paradigmatic stochastic process encountered in diverse systems. The instance of time when a polymer first arrives to some prescribed location defines an important characteristic time-scale for various phenomena, which are triggered or controlled by such an event. Here we discuss the translocation dynamics of a Gaussian polymer in a periodically-corrugated channel using an appropriately generalized Fick⁻Jacobs approach. Our main aim is to probe an effective broadness of the first-passage time distribution (FPTD), by determining the so-called coefficient of variation γ of the FPTD, defined as the ratio of the standard deviation versus the mean first-passage time (MFPT). We present a systematic analysis of γ as a function of a variety of system's parameters. We show that γ never significantly drops below 1 and, in fact, can attain very large values, implying that the MFPT alone cannot characterize the first-passage statistics of the translocation process exhaustively well.

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entropic barrierfirst-passage timepolymer translocation

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PMID30960235
PMCPMC6419016

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