Polymers in anisotropic environment with extended defects
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2013-02-06 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
The conformational properties of flexible polymers in d dimensions in environments with extended defects are analyzed both analytically and numerically. We consider the case, when structural defects are correlated in \varepsilon_d dimensions and randomly distributed in the remaining d-\varepsilon_d. Within the lattice model of self-avoiding random walks (SAW), we apply the pruned enriched Rosenbluth method (PERM) and find the estimates for scaling exponents and universal shape parameters of polymers in environment with parallel rod-like defects (\varepsilon_d=1). An analytical description of the model is developed within the des Cloizeaux direct polymer renormalization scheme.
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@article{arxiv.1212.4107,
title = {Polymers in anisotropic environment with extended defects},
author = {V. Blavatska and K. Haydukivska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4107},
year = {2013}
}