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In this paper we consider in detail the connection between the problem of a polymer in a random medium and that of a quantum particle in a random potential. We are interested in a system of finite volume where the polymer is known to be…

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We consider the phase transition in the system of n simultaneously developing random walks on the halfline x>=0. All walks are independent on each others in all points except the origin x=0, where the point well is located. The well depth…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergei Nechaev

Directed paths have been used extensively in the scientific literature as a model of a linear polymer. Such paths models in particular the conformational entropy of a linear polymer and the effects it has on the free energy. These directed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 E J Janse van Rensburg , T Prellberg , A Rechnitzer

In these proceedings, we first summarize some general properties of phase transitions in the presence of quenched disorder, with emphasis on the following points: the need to distinguish typical and averaged correlations, the possible…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-03-12 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

We present using simple scaling arguments and one step replica symmetry breaking a theory for the localization of semiflexible polymers in a quenched random environment. In contrast to completely flexible polymers, localization of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis

We consider a one-dimensional directed polymer in a random potential which is characterized by the Gaussian statistics with the finite size local correlations. It is shown that the well-known Kardar's solution obtained originally for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. E. Korshunov , Vik. S. Dotsenko

We study the path properties of a random polymer attracted to a defect line by a potential with disorder, and we prove that in the delocalized regime, at any temperature, the number of contacts with the defect line remains in a certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Kenneth S. Alexander , Nikos Zygouras

We explore the effect of random permanent cross-links on a system of directed polymers confined between two planes with their end-points free to slide on them. We treat the cross-links as quenched disorder and we use a semimicroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-22 Stephan Ulrich , Annette Zippelius , Panayotis Benetatos

I discuss models for a continuum directed random polymer in a disordered environment in which the polymer lives on a fractal called the \textit{diamond hierarchical lattice}, a self-similar metric space forming a network of interweaving…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Jeremy Clark

We study a one-dimensional version of the Hopfield model with long, but finite range interactions below the critical temperature. In the thermodynamic limit we obtain large deviation estimates for the distribution of the ``local'' overlaps,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Anton Bovier , Veronique Gayrard , Pierre Picco

We study periodic Brownian paths, wrapped around the surface of a cylinder. One characteristic of such a path is its width square, $w^2$, defined as its variance. Though the average of $w^2$ over all possible paths is well known, its full…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A J McKane , R K P Zia

The adsorption of a single ideal polymer chain on energetically heterogeneous and rough surfaces is investigated using a variational procedure introduced by Garel and Orland (Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997), 226). The mean polymer size is calculated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregor Huber , Thomas A. Vilgis

We study the overlap distribution of two particles chosen under the Gibbs measure at two temperatures for the branching Brownian motion. We first prove the convergence of the overlap distribution using the extended convergence of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Benjamin Bonnefont

We argue that the mean crossing number of a random polymer configuration is simply a measure of opacity, without being closely related to entanglement as claimed by several authors. We present an easy way of estimating its asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Grassberger

The aim of this paper is to investigate the distribution of a continuous polymer in the presence of an attractive finitely supported potential. The most intricate behavior can be observed if we simultaneously and independently vary two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 L. Koralov , S. Molchanov , B. Vainberg

To solve a linear program, the simplex method follows a path in the graph of a polytope, on which a linear function increases. The length of this path is an key measure of the complexity of the simplex method. Numerous previous articles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Martina Juhnke , Germain Poullot

We construct and study a family random continuum polymer measures $\mathbf{M}_{r}$ corresponding to limiting partition function laws recently derived in a weak-coupling regime of polymer models on hierarchical graphs with marginally…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Jeremy Clark

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

At high temperature, the overlap of two particles chosen independently according to the Gibbs measure of the branching Brownian motion converges to zero as time goes to infinity. We investigate the precise decay rate of the probability to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Louis Chataignier , Michel Pain

We introduce a new perfect sampling technique that can be applied to general Gibbs distributions and runs in linear time if the correlation decays faster than the neighborhood growth. In particular, in graphs with sub-exponential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Weiming Feng , Heng Guo , Yitong Yin