Collapse of Randomly Linked Polymers
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We consider polymers in which M randomly selected pairs of monomers are restricted to be in contact. Analytical arguments and numerical simulations show that an ideal (Gaussian) chain of N monomers remains expanded as long as M<<N. This result is inconsistent with results obtained from free energy considerations by Brygelson and Thirumalai (PRL76, 542 (1996)).
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9601095,
title = {Collapse of Randomly Linked Polymers},
author = {Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9601095},
year = {2009}
}
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