Critical adsorption of polymers in a medium with long-range correlated quenched disorder
Abstract
We investigated the influence of short- and long-range correlated quenched disorder introduced into the medium on the process of adsorption of long-flexible polymer chains on a wall by using the field theoretical approach in and the directly in d=3 dimensions up to one-loop order for the semi-infinite m-vector model (in the limit ) with a boundary. This allows us to describe the critical behaviour of long-flexible polymer chains in the vicinity of the surface and to obtain the whole set of surface critical exponents at the special surface transition (), which separates the nonadsorbed region from the adsorbed one . In the case of very strong correlation of the disorder we obtained that a polymer collapses and adsorbs on a wall. The obtained results indicate that for the systems with long-range correlated quenched disorder the new set of surface critical exponents arises and show that polymer chains in solution with that type of disorder adsorb on a wall stronger than the polymer chains in pure medium.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0308020,
title = {Critical adsorption of polymers in a medium with long-range correlated quenched disorder},
author = {Z. Usatenko and A. Ciach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0308020},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages