Effect of grafting on the binding transition of two flexible polymers
Soft Condensed Matter
2017-04-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We investigate the binding transition of two flexible polymers grafted to a steric surface with closeby end points. While free polymers show a discontinuous transition, grafting to a steric flat surface leads to a continuous binding transition. This is supported by results from Metropolis and parallel multicanonical simulations. A combination of canonical and microcanonical analyses reveals that the change in transition order can be understood in terms of the reduced translational entropy of the unbound high-temperature phase upon grafting.
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@article{arxiv.1612.01778,
title = {Effect of grafting on the binding transition of two flexible polymers},
author = {Johannes Zierenberg and Katharina Tholen and Wolfhard Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.01778},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J Spec. Topics