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This report deals with phase transition in Bond Fluctuation Model (BFM) of a linear homo polymer on a two dimensional square lattice. Each monomer occupies a unit cell of four lattice sites. The condition that a lattice site can at best be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-16 Hima Bindu Kolli , K. P. N. Murthy

Using Langevin dynamics complemented by Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulations, we study the phase behavior of single and multiple semiflexible polymer chains in solution under poor-solvent conditions. In the case of a single chain, we obtain…

We study the conformational behavior of polarizable polymer chain under an external homogeneous electric field within the Flory type self-consistent field theory. We consider the influence of electric field on the polymer coil as well as on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov , M. G. Kiselev

The structure of polymer coils near interfaces between coexisting phases of symmetrical polymer mixtures (AB) is discussed, as well as the structure of symmetric diblock copolymers of the same chain length N adsorbed at the interface. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Binder , M. Mueller , F. Schmid , A. Werner

Conformations of a single-component bottle-brush polymer with a fully flexible backbone under poor solvent conditions are studied by molecular-dynamics simulations, using a coarse-grained bead-spring model with side chains of up to N=40…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-25 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Single linear polymer chains in dilute solutions under good solvent conditions are studied by Monte Carlo simulations with the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth method up to the chain length $N \sim {\cal O}(10^4)$. Based on the standard simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Hsiao-Ping Hsu

We have studied the thermodynamics of isolated homopolymer chains of varying stiffness using a lattice model. A complex phase behaviour is found; phases include chain-folded `crystalline' structures, the disordered globule and the coil. It…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Jonathan Doye , Richard Sear , Daan Frenkel

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the phase behavior of linear multiblock copolymers with two types of monomers, A and B, where the length of the polymer blocks $N_{A}$ and $N_{B}$ ($N_{A}=N_{B}=N$), the number of the blocks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-04 Panagiotis E. Theodorakis , Nikolaos G. Fytas

We have analyzed the equilibrium response of chain molecules to stretching. For a homogeneous sequence of monomers, the induced transition from compact globule to extended coil below the $\theta$-temperature is predicted to be sharp. For…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Phillip L. Geissler , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Continuum Monte-Carlo simulations at constant pressure are performed on short chain molecules at surfaces. The rodlike chains, consisting of seven effective monomers, are attached at one end to a flat twodimensional substrate. It is found…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hilfer , F. M. Haas

We study structural phase transition of polymer-grafted colloidal particles by Monte Carlo simulations on hard spherical particles. The interaction potential, which has a weak repulsive step outside the hard core, was validated with use of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

The stability of a $\beta$-sheeted conformation and its transition into a random coil are studied with a 2D lattice biopolymer model. At low temperature and low external force, the polymer folds back and forth on itself and forms a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Haijun Zhou

A self-consistent field theory was developed in the grand-canonical ensemble formulation to study transitions in a helix-coil multiblock globule. Helical and coil parts are treated as stiff rods and self-avoiding walks of variable lengths…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Nowak , Vakhtang G. Rostiashvili , Thomas A. Vilgis

A mean field rate theory description of the homo- and co-polymerization of $f$-functional molecules is developed, which contains the formation of short cyclic structures inside the network. The predictions of this model are compared with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-31 Michael Lang , Konrad Schwenke , Jens-Uwe Sommer

We have performed parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations using a simple continuum heteropolymer model for proteins. All ten heteropolymer sequences which we have studied have shown first-order transitions at low temperature to ordered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-05 J. E. Magee , J. Warwicker , L. Lue

A numerical diagonalization technique with canonical Monte-Carlo simulation algorithm is used to study the phase transitions from low temperature (ordered) phase to high temperature (disordered) phase of spinless Falicov-Kimball model on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Umesh K. Yadav , T. Maitra , Ishwar Singh

The determination of the coil-globule transition of a polymer is generally based on the reconstruction of scaling laws, implying the need for samples from a rather wide range of different polymer lengths $N$. The spectral point of view…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Timothy Földes , Antony Lesage , Maria Barbi

Systematic microcanonical inflection-point analysis of precise numerical results obtained in extensive generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo simulations reveals a bifurcation of the coil-globule transition line for polymers with a bending…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Dilimulati Aierken , Michael Bachmann

We study a solution of interacting semiflexible polymers with curvature energy in poor-solvent conditions on the d-dimensional cubic lattice using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo computer simulations. Building upon past studies on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-02 Davide Marcato , Achille Giacometti , Amos Maritan , Angelo Rosa

In this paper, we report dynamic Monte Carlo simulation results on the crystallization of crystalline/crystalline (A/B) symmetric binary polymer blend, wherein the melting temperature of A-polymer is higher than B-polymer. Crystallization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Ashok Kumar Dasmahapatra