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Polymer Dynamics: Long Time Simulations and Topological Constraints

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Simulations are very versatile tools to study the relaxation and dynamics of polymer melts and networks. The fact that polymer chains cannot pass through each other poses special difficulties for analytic theories, while on the other hand many experiments are dominated by this fact. The contribution discusses some basic concepts and conditions and ways to study such problems by computer simulations.

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Kremer, K. (2006). Polymer Dynamics: Long Time Simulations and Topological Constraints. In: Ferrario, M., Ciccotti, G., Binder, K. (eds) Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Systems: From Materials to Chemical Biology Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35284-8_14

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