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We present a numerical Monte Carlo analysis of a continuos spin Ising chain that can describe the statistical proterties of folded proteins. We find that depending on the value of the Metropolis temperature, the model displays the three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-01 M. N. Chernodub , Martin Lundgren , Antti J. Niemi

Collective human movement is a hallmark of complex systems, exhibiting emergent order across diverse settings, from pedestrian flows to biological collectives. In high-speed scenarios, alignment interactions ensure efficient flow and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-03 Debasish Sarker , Yi Zhang , Lynn K. Perry , Daniel S. Messinger , Chaoming Song

We consider a branching random walk with an absorbing barrier, where the step of the associated one-dimensional random walk is in the domain of attraction of an $\alpha$-stable law with $1<\alpha<2$. We shall prove that there is a barrier…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Jingning Liu , Mei Zhang

The present paper is dedicated to the 2-dimensional Interacting Partially Directed Self Avoiding Walk constrained to remain in the upper-half plan and interacting with the horizontal axis. The model has been introduced in \cite{F90} to…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Alexandre Legrand , Nicolas Pétrélis

We solve a two dimensional model for polymer chain folding in the presence of mechanical pulling force ($f$) exactly using equilibrium statistical mechanics. Using analytically derived expression for the partition function we determine the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Himadri S Samanta , D. Thirumalai

We study biased random walkers on lattices with randomly dispersed static traps in one, two and three dimensions. As the external bias is increased from zero the system undergoes a phase transition, most clearly manifested in the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vishal Mehra , Peter Grassberger

We consider the escape of a flexible, self-avoiding polymer chain out of a confined geometry. By means of simulations, we demonstrate that the translocation time can be described by a simple scaling law that exhibits a nonlinear dependence…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Angelo Cacciuto , Erik Luijten

It is shown that the effective string recently introduced to describe the long distance dynamics of 3D gauge systems in the confining phase has an intriguing description in terms of models of 2D self-avoiding walks in the dense phase. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Caselle , F. Gliozzi

Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations provide a striking confirmation to a recent theoretical prediction: the Brownian non-Gaussian diffusion of critical self-avoiding walks. Although the mean square displacement of the polymer center…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Boris Marcone , Sankaran Nampoothiri , Enzo Orlandini , Flavio Seno , Fulvio Baldovin

We have investigated a polymer growth process on the triangular lattice where the configurations produced are self-avoiding trails. We show that the scaling behaviour of this process is similar to the analogous process on the square…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-01 Jason Doukas , Aleksander L Owczarek , Thomas Prellberg

We show the existence of a force induced triple point in an interacting polymer problem that allows two zero-force thermal phase transitions. The phase diagrams for three different models of mutually attracting but self avoiding polymers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sanjay Kumar , Debaprasad Giri , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

We prove that self-avoiding walk on Z^d is sub-ballistic in any dimension d at least two. That is, writing ||u|| for the Euclidean norm of u \in Z^d, and SAW_n for the uniform measure on self-avoiding walks gamma:{0,...,n} \to Z^d for which…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Hugo Duminil-Copin , Alan Hammond

The thermally assisted detachment of a self-avoiding polymer chain from an adhesive surface by an external force applied to one of the chain ends is investigated. We perform our study in the "fixed height" statistical ensemble where one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-13 S. Bhattacharya , A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

Chemical potential is an effective way to drive phase transition or express wettability. In this letter, we present a chemical-potential-based lattice Boltzmann model to simulate multiphase flows. The nonideal force is directly evaluated by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Binghai Wen , Xuan Zhou , Bing He , Chaoying Zhang , Haiping Fang

This paper considers an undirected polymer chain on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d \geq 2$, with i.i.d.\ random charges attached to its constituent monomers. Each self-intersection of the polymer chain contributes an energy to the interaction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Quentin Berger , Frank den Hollander , Julien Poisat

We study the structural properties of self-attracting walks in d dimensions using scaling arguments and Monte Carlo simulations. We find evidence for a transition analogous to the \Theta transition of polymers. Above a critical attractive…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ordemann , G. Berkolaiko , S. Havlin , A. Bunde

The rate of escape of polymers from a two-dimensionally confining potential well has been evaluated using self-avoiding as well as ideal chain representations of varying length, up to 80 beads. Long timescale Langevin trajectories were…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-27 Harri Mökkönen , Timo Ikonen , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Hannes Jónsson

We solve a model of polymers represented by self-avoiding walks on a lattice which may visit the same site up to three times in the grand-canonical formalism on the Bethe lattice. This may be a model for the collapse transition of polymers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-23 T. J. Oliveira , J. F. Stilck , P. Serra

We reduce the problem of counting self-avoiding walks in the square lattice to a problem of counting the number of integral points in multidimensional domains. We obtain an asymptotic estimate of the number of self-avoiding walks of length…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Youssef Lazar

The self-avoiding walk, and lattice spin systems such as the $\varphi^4$ model, are models of interest both in mathematics and in physics. Many of their important mathematical problems remain unsolved, particularly those involving critical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Gordon Slade