Coil-Globule transition of a single short polymer chain - an exact enumeration study
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present an exact enumeration study of short SAWs in two as well as three dimensions that addresses the question, `what is the shortest walk for which the existence of all the three phases - coil, globule and the {\it theta} - could be demonstrated'. Even though we could easily demonstrate the coil and the globule phases from Free Energy considerations, we could demonstrate the existence of a {\it theta} phase only by using a scaling form for the distribution of gyration radius. That even such short walks have a scaling behavior is an unexpected result of this work.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701032,
title = {Coil-Globule transition of a single short polymer chain - an exact enumeration study},
author = {M. Ponmurugan and S. L. Narasimhan and P. S. R. Krishna and K. P. N. Murthy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701032},
year = {2007}
}
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Three page RevTeX4 double column manuscript with four .eps figures