The Adsorption and Collapse Transitions in a Linear Polymer Chain near an Attractive Wall
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We deduce the qualitative phase diagram of a long flexible neutral polymer chain immersed in a poor solvent near an attracting surface using phenomenological arguments. The actual positions of the phase boundaries are estimated numerically from series expansion up to 19 sites of a self-attracting self avoiding walk in three dimensions. In two dimensions, we calculate analytically phase boundaries in some cases for a partially directed model. Both the numerical as well as analytical results corroborate the proposed qualitative phase diagram.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107510,
title = {The Adsorption and Collapse Transitions in a Linear Polymer Chain near an Attractive Wall},
author = {R. Rajesh and Deepak Dhar and Debaprasad Giri and Sanjay Kumar and Yashwant Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107510},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures, revtex