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Liquid drop in a cone - line tension effects
The shape of a liquid drop placed in a cone is analyzed macroscopically.
Depending on the values of the cone opening angle, the Young angle and the line
tension four different interfacial configurations may be realized. The phase
diagram in these variables is constructed and discussed; it contains both the
first- and the second-order transition lines. In particular, the tricritical
point is found and the value of the critical exponent characterizing the
behaviour of the system along the line of the first-order transitions in the
neighbourhood of this point is determined.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
The two-angle model and the phase diagram for Chromatin
We have studied the phase diagram for chromatin within the framework of the
two-angle model. Rather than improving existing models with finer details our
main focus of the work is getting mathematically rigorous results on the
structure, especially on the excluded volume effects and the effects on the
energy due to the long-range forces and their screening. Thus we present a
phase diagram for the allowed conformations and the Coulomb energies
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