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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 direct incoherent energy transfer from an immobile excited donor molecule to acceptor molecules, which are all attached to polymer chains, randomly arranged in a viscous solvent. The decay forms are found explicitly, in terms…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Oshanin , J. De Coninck , A. Blumen , S. F. Burlatsky , M. Moreau

Half-space directed polymers in random environments are models of interface growth in the presence of an attractive hard wall. They arise naturally in the study of wetting and entropic repulsion phenomena. In 1985, Kardar predicted a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Victor Ginsburg

We consider the statistical mechanics of a random polymer with random walks and disorders in $\mathbb{Z}^d$. The walk collects random disorders along the way and gets nothing if it visits the same site twice. In the continuum and weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Chien-Hao Huang

The effect of an electric field on conduction in a disordered system is an old but largely unsolved problem. Experiments cover an wide variety of systems - amorphous/doped semiconductors, conducting polymers, organic crystals, manganites,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-15 K. K. Bardhan , D. Talukdar , U. N. Nandi , C. D. Mukherjee

We study analytically a model of a two dimensional, partially directed, flexible or semiflexible polymer, attached to an attractive wall which is perpendicular to the preferred direction. In addition, the polymer is stretched by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pui-Man Lam , Yi Zhen , Haijun Zhou , Jie Zhou

We study the directed polymer with fixed endpoints near an absorbing wall, in the continuum and in presence of disorder, equivalent to the KPZ equation on the half space with droplet initial conditions. From a Bethe Ansatz solution of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas Gueudre , Pierre Le Doussal

Consider the free energy of a $d$-dimensional gas in canonical equilibrium under pairwise repulsive interaction and global confinement, in presence of a volume constraint. When the volume of the gas is forced away from its typical value,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Fabio Deelan Cunden , Paolo Facchi , Marilena Ligabò , Pierpaolo Vivo

The exact solution of directed self-avoiding walks confined to a slit of finite width and interacting with the walls of the slit via an attractive potential has been calculated recently. The walks can be considered to model the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Owczarek , T. Prellberg , A. Rechnitzer

In this paper, we consider directed polymers in random environment with long range jumps in discrete space and time. We extend to this case some techniques, results and classifications known in the usual short range case. However, some…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francis Comets

We investigate the stretching response of a thick polymer model by means of extensive stochastic simulations. The computational results are synthesized in an analytic expression that characterizes how the force versus elongation curve…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ngo Minh Toan , Davide Marenduzzo , Cristian Micheletti

We consider a model for a polymer chain interacting with a sequence of equispaced flat interfaces through a pinning potential. The intensity $\delta \in \mathbb {R}$ of the pinning interaction is constant, while the interface spacing…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Francesco Caravenna , Nicolas Pétrélis

We use a generalization of Hoeffding's inequality to show concentration results for the free energy of disordered pinning models, assuming only that the disorder has a finite exponential moment. We also prove some concentration inequalities…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Frederique Watbled

Partial summations of perturbation expansions of the directed polymer in disordered media (DPRM) enables one to represent the latter as skeleton expansions in powers of the effective coupling constant $\Delta (t)$, which corresponds to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-02 Semjon Stepanow

We study analytically and numerically the winding of directed polymers of length $t$ around each other or around a rod. Unconfined polymers in pure media have exponentially decaying winding angle distributions, the decay constant depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Barbara Drossel , Mehran Kardar

Dimensional reduction occurs when the critical behavior of one system can be related to that of another system in a lower dimension. We show that this occurs for directed branched polymers (DBP) by giving an exact relationship between DBP…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Z. Imbrie

The dynamics of a polymer ring enclosing a constant {\sl algebraic} area is studied. The constraint of a constant area is found to couple the dynamics of the two Cartesian components of the position vector of the polymer ring through the…

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

We consider a model of directed polymers on a regular tree with a disorder given by independent, identically distributed weights attached to the vertices. For suitable weight distributions this model undergoes a phase transition with…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Peter Morters , Marcel Ortgiese

The model of directed polymer in a random environment is a fundamental model of interaction between a simple random walk and ambient disorder. This interaction gives rise to complex phenomena and transitions from a central limit theory to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Nikos Zygouras

The number of configurations of a polymer is reduced in the presence of a barrier or an obstacle. The resulting loss of entropy adds a repulsive component to other forces generated by interaction potentials. When the obstructions are scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar