Figure 4.

The scaled chain relaxation time for N = 1000, P/σ_m = 25 (circles), N = 400, P/σ_m = 10 (squares), and N = 800, P/σ_m = 5 (triangles). Data from Ref. 5 are shown as stars with error bars. Chain relaxation time is rescaled according to its dependence on the chain contour length, $\overline{\tau }={\tau }_{\delta }{(L_{\lambda }/L)}^{11/5}$, L_λ = λ-DNA contour length of 16 μm. The inset shows the relaxation time with (filled circle) and without HI (empty circle) for N = 160, P/σ_m = 4. X marks the estimated τ_bulk for L = 2 μm. The dashed and dotted-dashed lines show H³/ln(H/σ_m) and (H/P)² dependences, respectively. The error estimates are comparable to the symbol size.