Cato edited Payam and DNA.tex  over 10 years ago

Commit id: 24ecc7c381e393f304d76e14c9d7f0391f7d789f

deletions | additions      

       

\item Is there anything to be done about the discrepancy between experiment and observations in the DNA capture paper?  \begin{itemize}  \item The onset of the diffusion-limited regime occurs {\it later} than predicted when varying the DNA length (figure 4a). But when varying the potential difference, the crossover happens earlier. earlier (figure 4b).  \item The approximations and order-of-magnitude guesses in the paper mean that we have no reason to expect high-fidelity predictions. They actually do surprisingly well.  \item But there might be a question of internal consistency. consistency: does the fact that there are two discrepancies (figures 4a and 4b) in ``different'' directions point to some problem with the theory?  \item I could improve the work by putting error bars on the predictions -- perhaps this will boost faith in the results, or point to some hitherto unaccounted-for issue.  \end{itemize}