Elastic Lennard-Jones Polymers Meet Clusters -- Differences and Similarities
Soft Condensed Matter
2010-07-23 v1 Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We investigate solid-solid and solid-liquid transitions of elastic flexible off-lattice polymers with Lennard-Jones monomer-monomer interaction and anharmonic springs by means of sophisticated variants of multicanonical Monte Carlo methods. We find that the low-temperature behavior depends strongly and non-monotonically on the system size and exhibits broad similarities to unbound atomic clusters. Particular emphasis is dedicated to the classification of icosahedral and non-icosahedral low-energy polymer morphologies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1007.3954,
title = {Elastic Lennard-Jones Polymers Meet Clusters -- Differences and Similarities},
author = {Stefan Schnabel and Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3954},
year = {2010}
}
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9 pages, 17 figures