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Elucidating fluctuating diffusivity in center-of-mass motion of polymer models with time-averaged mean-square-displacement tensor (1703.03555v2)

Published 10 Mar 2017 in cond-mat.stat-mech and cond-mat.soft

Abstract: There have been increasing reports that the diffusion coefficient of macromolecules depends on time and fluctuates randomly. Here, a novel method to elucidate the fluctuating diffusivity from trajectory data is developed. The time-averaged mean square displacement (MSD), a common tool in single-particle-tracking (SPT) experiments, is generalized into a second order tensor, with which information on both magnitude fluctuations and orientational fluctuations of the diffusivity can be clearly detected. This new method is utilized to analyze the center-of-mass motion of four polymer models, the Rouse model, the Zimm model, a reptation model, and a rigid rodlike polymer, and it is found that these models exhibit distinctly different types of magnitude and orientational fluctuations of the diffusivity. This method of the time-averaged MSD tensor can be applied also to the trajectory data obtained in SPT experiments.

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