Dynamics and Scaling of 2D Polymers in a Dilute Solution
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The breakdown of dynamical scaling for a dilute polymer solution in 2D has been suggested by Shannon and Choy [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 79}, 1455 (1997)]. However, we show here both numerically and analytically that dynamical scaling holds when the finite-size dependence of the relevant dynamical quantities is properly taken into account. We carry out large-scale simulations in 2D for a polymer chain in a good solvent with full hydrodynamic interactions to verify dynamical scaling. This is achieved by novel mesoscopic simulation techniques.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301219,
title = {Dynamics and Scaling of 2D Polymers in a Dilute Solution},
author = {E. Falck and O. Punkkinen and I. Vattulainen and T. Ala-Nissila},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301219},
year = {2009}
}