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The concentration dependence of the excluded volume effects in polymer solutions is investigated. Through thermodynamic arguments for the interpenetration of polymer segments and the free energy change, we show that the disappearance of the…
Excluded volume effects are incorporated in the quark meson coupling model to take into account in a phenomenological way the hard core repulsion of the nuclear force. The formalism employed is thermodynamically consistent and does not…
The preceding theory of excluded volume effects is applied to the Daud and coworkers' observations. Based on various researchers' experimental data, it is suggested that the Daud and coworkers' value in the bulk state may be revised from 82…
The expansion factor, $\alpha^{2}=\langle s_{N}^{2}\rangle/\langle s_{N}^{2}\rangle_{0}$, of branched molecules in the melt state is estimated. The equilibrium expansion factor is determined as the point in which all the inhomogeneity terms…
We present a significant extension of the quark mass density-dependent model (QMDDM), initially revised in our prior study (Lugones and Grunfeld, Phys. Rev. D 107, 043025 (2023)), where thermodynamic inconsistencies were addressed. Our…
The tethered-particle method is a single-molecule technique that has been used to explore the dynamics of a variety of macromolecules of biological interest. We give a theoretical analysis of the particle motions in such experiments. Our…
The excluded volume effects of randomly branched polymers are investigated. To approach this problem we assume the Gaussian distribution of segments around the center of gravity. Once this approximation is introduced, we can make use of the…
We investigate the effect of excluded volume interactions on the electrolyte distribution around a charged macroion. First, we introduce a criterion for determining when hard-core effects should be taken into account beyond standard mean…
Excluded-volume effects can play an important role in determining transport properties in diffusion of particles. Here, the diffusion of finite-sized hard-core interacting particles in two or three dimensions is considered systematically…
The effect of a finite volume presents itself both in heavy ion experiments as well as in recent model calculations. The magnitude is sensitive to the proximity of a nearby critical point. We calculate the finite volume effects at finite…
Compressional properties of nuclear matter are studied by using the mean field theory with the excluded volume effects of the nucleons. It is found that the excluded volume effects make it possible to fit the empirical data of the Coulomb…
We analyze the determination of volume effects for correlation functions that depend on an external momentum. As a specific example, we consider finite volume nucleon current correlators, and focus on the nucleon magnetic moment. Because…
On the basis of the thermodynamic theory of the excluded volume effects, we show that the size exponent varies abruptly, depending on the change of the segment concentration. For linear polymers, the exponent changes discontinuously from…
The formation of clusters in nuclear matter is investigated, which occurs e.g. in low energy heavy ion collisions or core-collapse supernovae. In astrophysical applications, the excluded volume concept is commonly used for the description…
In this Letter we investigate the mechanism for overcharging of a single spherical colloid in the presence of aqueous salts within the framework of the primitive model by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations as well as integral-equation…
We derive the finite-volume correction to the binding energy of an N-particle quantum bound state in a cubic periodic volume. Our results are applicable to bound states with arbitrary composition and total angular momentum, and in any…
We present the alternative derivation of the excluded volume equation. The resulting equation is mathematically identical to the one proposed in the preceding paper. As a result, the theory reproduces well the observed points by SANS (small…
By exploiting the diffeomorphism invariance we relate the finite size effects of massless theories to their Weyl anomaly. We show that the universal contributions to the finite size effects are determined by certain coefficient functions in…
We investigate the excluded volume effects in good solvents for the isolated comb polymers having $\nu_{0}=1/4$. In particular, we investigate the change of the size exponent, $\nu$, defined by $\langle s_{N}^{2}\rangle\propto N^{2\nu}$,…
The EMC effect is studied in the perturbative QCD hard pomeron approach. In the limit $x\rightarrow 0$ and for a nucleus with a constant density the effect is found to be a function of a single variable which combines its $x$-, $Q$- and…