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Critical adsorption of polymers in a medium with long-range correlated quenched disorder

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-05-23 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

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 d=4ϵd=4-\epsilon and the directly in d=3 dimensions up to one-loop order for the semi-infinite ϕ4|\phi^4| m-vector model (in the limit m0m \to 0) 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 (c=cadsc=c_{ads}), which separates the nonadsorbed region c>cadsc>c_{ads} from the adsorbed one c<cadsc<c_{ads}. 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