A simple model of a sequence-reading diffusion: non-self-averaging and self-averaging properties

Motivated by a question about the sensitivity of knots’ diffusive motion to the actual sequence of nucleotides placed on a given DNA, here we study a simple model of a sequence-reading diffusion on a stretched chain with a frozen sequence of ‘letters’ A and B , having different interaction energies....

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Published in:	New Journal of Physics
Main Authors:	Silvio Kalaj, Enzo Marinari, Gleb Oshanin, Luca Peliti
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	diffusion in disordered media self-averaging vs non-self-averaging sample-to-sample fluctuations
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/adcd94