Аннотация:In this chapter, we review concepts and theories of polymer dynamics.
We think of it as an introduction to the topic for scientists specializing
in other subfields of statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory,
so, for the readers reference, we start with a short review of the equilibrium
static properties of polymer systems. Most attention is paid to the
dynamics of unentangled polymer systems, where apart from classical
Rouse and Zimm models we review some recent scaling and analytical
generalizations. The dynamics of systems with entanglements is also
briefly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the discussion of comparatively
weakly understood topological states of polymer systems and
possible approaches to the description of their dynamics.