Mode selectivity of dynamically induced conformation in many-body chainlike bead-spring models

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. Stability of a conformation is determined intrinsically by a potential energy function depending on the bending angles. However, effective forces induced by excited springs can change the stability, and a conformation can stay around a local maximum or a saddle of the bending potential. A stabilized conformation was named the dynamically induced conformation in a previous work on a three-body system [Y. Y. Yamaguchi et al., Phys. Rev. E 105, 064201 (2022)]. A remarkable fact is that the stabilization by the spring motion depends on the excited normal modes, which depend on a conformation. We extend analyses of the dynamically induced conformation in many-body chainlike bead-spring systems. Simple rules are that the lowest-eigenfrequency mode contributes to the stabilization and that the higher the eigenfrequency is, the more the destabilization emerges. We verify theoretical predictions by performing numerical simulations.