@inproceedings{09aaaf75ea5d495e9f5103cd9eb942a2,
title = "Dynamics of knotted polymers",
abstract = "Most people should have the frustrated experience of trying to untie an entangled mess of a knotted string. It seems that the more crossing the string has, it would take more time and patience for one to untie it. And certainly random and/or violent movements of the string segments would make thing even worse in most cases. To our surprise, our recent studies[l, 2]on the non-equilibrium relaxation of a closed knotted polymer cut at some point and relaxed by Brownian motion to a linear chain, indicates that it is not always true that knots with more essential crossings will, on average, take more time to untie. The detail topology of the knot type and the topological interactions are important in the untying relaxation dynamics.",
author = "Lai, {Pik Yin}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2004 American Institute of Physics.; 3rd International Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems ; Conference date: 03-11-2003 Through 08-11-2003",
year = "2004",
month = apr,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1063/1.1764144",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
pages = "281--284",
editor = "Michio Tokuyama and Irwin Oppenheim",
booktitle = "Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems",
}