Note: Determine entanglement length through monomer mean-square displacement.

J Chem Phys

Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China.

Published: January 2017

I present a refined version of the method for determining entanglement length through monomer mean-square displacement. By retrieving a prefactor π/2 that might be lost in previous derivation, the entanglement length of the standard bead-spring model estimated by this method coincides with the measurements of other methods.

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