Mode selectivity of dynamically induced conformation in many-body chain-like bead-spring model

Abstract

We consider conformation of a chain consisting of beads connected by stiff springs, where the conformation is determined by the bending angles between the consecutive two springs. A conformation is stabilized or destabilized not only by a given bending potential but also the fast spring motion, and stabilization by the spring motion depends on their excited normal modes. This stabilization mechanism has been named the dynamically induced conformation in a previous work on a three-body system. We extend analyses of the dynamically induced conformation in many-body chain-like bead-spring systems. The normal modes of the springs depend on the conformation, and the simple rule of the dynamical stabilization is that the lowest eigenfrequency mode contributes to the stabilization of the conformation. The high the eigenfrequency is, the more the destabilization emerges. We verify theoretical predictions by performing numerical simulations.