Conformations of Randomly Linked Polymers

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3 March 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9603017

Abstract

We consider polymers in which M randomly selected pairs of monomers are restricted to be in contact. Analytical arguments and numerical simulations show that an ideal (Gaussian) chain of N monomers remains expanded as long as M< (N/M)^(nu). The number of links needed to collapse a polymer in three dimensions thus scales as N^(phi), with (phi) > 0.43.

Keywords

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
ANALYTICAL ARGUMENTS
POLYMER IS REDUCED
CONSIDER POLYMERS
LINKED POLYMERS
RANDOMLY LINKED
SELECTED PAIRS
MODEL
PHI

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Version 1, 1996-03-03, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review E, 54 (5), 5263.

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