In the present paper we define a quantity which describes how strong a polymer system is entangled. In MD computer simulations we apply this definition to samples of polymer melts which were generated with a specific large scale structure, as characterized by their radius of gyration, end-to-end distance and the ''degree'' of mutual entanglement of the chains. The quantities mentioned above are monitored over the relaxation of the samples towards equilibrium. for LaTeX users @article{MKroger1994-3, author = {M. Kr\"oger and H. Voigt}, title = {On a quantity describing the degree of entanglement in linear polymer systems}, journal = {Macromol. Theory Simul.}, volume = {3}, pages = {639-647}, year = {1994} }
\bibitem{MKroger1994-3} M. Kr\"oger, H. Voigt, On a quantity describing the degree of entanglement in linear polymer systems, Macromol. Theory Simul. {\bf 3} (1994) 639-647.MKroger1994-3 M. Kr\"oger, H. Voigt On a quantity describing the degree of entanglement in linear polymer systems Macromol. Theory Simul.,3,1994,639-647 |