Pseudo-First-Order Transition in Interacting Self-avoiding Walks and Trails
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
The coil-globule transition of an isolated polymer has been well established to be a second-order phase transition described by a standard tricritical O(0) field theory. We present Monte-Carlo simulations of interacting self-avoiding walks and interacting self-avoiding trails in four dimensions which provide compelling evidence that the approach to this (tri)critical point is dominated by the build-up of first-order-like singularities masking the second-order nature of the coil-globule transition.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108390,
title = {Pseudo-First-Order Transition in Interacting Self-avoiding Walks and Trails},
author = {Thomas Prellberg and Aleksander L. Owczarek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108390},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages with 2 figures included, CCP2001 submission