dc.contributor.author | Charan, Harish | |
dc.contributor.author | Hansen, Alex | |
dc.contributor.author | Hentschel, H. George E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Procaccia, Itamar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-29T09:10:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-29T09:10:57Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-02-22T16:37:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review Letters. 2021, 126 (8), . | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2735898 | |
dc.description.abstract | The rupture of a polymer chain maintained at temperature T under fixed tension is prototypical to a wide array of systems failing under constant external stress and random perturbations. Past research focused on analytic and numerical studies of the mean rate of collapse of such a chain. Surprisingly, an analytic calculation of the probability distribution function (PDF) of collapse rates appears to be lacking. Since rare events of rapid collapse can be important and even catastrophic, we present here a theory of this distribution, with a stress on its tail of fast rates. We show that the tail of the PDF is a power law with a universal exponent that is theoretically determined. Extensive numerics validate the offered theory. Lessons pertaining to other problems of the same type are drawn. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.title | Aging and Failure of a Polymer Chain under Tension | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 4 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 126 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Physical Review Letters | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.085501 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1892487 | |
dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 262644 | en_US |
dc.description.localcode | © 2021 American Physical Society | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |