Publisher's Note: Translocation of a semiflexible polymer through a nanopore in the presence of attractive binding particles [Phys. Rev. E 92, 032711 (2015)]

Figure 9

(a) Scaled MFPT $\langle \tau \rangle /N^{1.5}$ as a function of binding strength ${\epsilon }_c$ of BPs for different chain stiffness (${\kappa }_b=0, 8\epsilon , 32\epsilon$, and $256\epsilon$) and for $N=64$ (open symbols) and $N=32$ (closed symbols), respectively. Black-solid, red-dashed, and green-dotted lines are fourth-degree polynomial fits to the data for ${\kappa }_b=256\epsilon , 32\epsilon$, and $8\epsilon$, respectively. The fitted line for the data corresponding to ${\kappa }_b=8\epsilon$ is almost the same as for ${\kappa }_b=0\epsilon$. (b) Scaled MFPT $\langle \tau \rangle /{\rho }^{-0.8}$ as a function of binding strength ${\epsilon }_c$ of BPs for a stiff chain (${\kappa }_b=256\epsilon$) of length $N=64$. Open symbols correspond to $\rho =1\%$ and closed symbols correspond to $\rho =5\%$. The solid line represent the fourth-degree polynomial fit to the data.