Simple flexible polymers in a spherical cage
Soft Condensed Matter
2012-12-27 v1
Abstract
We report the results of Monte Carlo simulations investigating the effect of a spherical confinement within a simple model for a flexible homopolymer. We use the parallel tempering method combined with multi-histogram reweighting analysis and multicanonical simulations to investigate thermodynamical observables over a broad range of temperatures, which enables us to describe the behavior of the polymer and to locate the freezing and collapse transitions. We find a strong effect of the spherical confinement on the location of the collapse transition, whereas the freezing transition is hardly effected.
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@article{arxiv.1212.6144,
title = {Simple flexible polymers in a spherical cage},
author = {M. Marenz and J. Zierenberg and H. Arkin and W. Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6144},
year = {2012}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures