Reply to the Comment on "Passage Times for Unbiased Polymer Translocation through a Narrow Pore"

TL;DR

This paper provides a theoretical derivation and numerical validation of the scaling law for pore-blockade times in unbiased polymer translocation, showing it scales as N^{2+ν} in 2D and 3D with Rouse dynamics.

Contribution

It offers a new theoretical derivation and numerical confirmation of the scaling law for translocation times in polymer physics.

Findings

Pore-blockade times scale as N^{2+ν} in 2D and 3D.

Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical scaling law.

The study assumes Rouse dynamics for the polymer.

Abstract

Theoretical derivation and numerical confirmation are provided for the scaling of pore-blockade times as $N^{2+\nu}$ for unbiased translocation in two and three dimensions, with $N$ as the polymer length and $\nu$ as the Flory exponent of the polymer. The polymer performs Rouse dynamics.