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Scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-25 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Folklore has, that the universal scaling properties of linear polymers in disordered media are well described by the statistics of self-avoiding walks Folklore has, that the universal scaling properties of linear polymers in disordered media are well described by the statistics of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on percolation clusters and their critical exponent νSAW\nu_{\text{SAW}}, with SAW implicitly referring to \emph{average} SAW. Hitherto, static averaging has been commonly used, e.g. in numerical simulations, to determine what the \emph{average} SAW is. We assert that only kinetic, rather than static, averaging can lead to asymptotic scaling behavior and corroborate our assertion by heuristic arguments and a renormalizable field theory. Moreover, we calculate to two-loop order νSAW\nu_{\text{SAW}}, the exponent νmax\nu _{\text{max}} for the longest SAW, and a new family of multifractal exponents ν(α)\nu^{(\alpha)}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609053,
  title  = {Scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media},
  author = {Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609053},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures