On the 'packing' principle of semiflexible lattice polymers
- 21 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 17 (18) , L971-L974
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/17/18/007
Abstract
Evidence is given that the principle of the impossibility of packing rigid chains on a lattice to high density in a disordered array is limited to regions of linear size comparable to the chain length, which has the consequence that for finite chain length, the ground state of a dense system of semiflexible lattice chains does not exhibit a long-ranged orientational order, but is highly degenerated with non-vanishing entropy. This is shown by simulating various systems at concentrations >0.95 on the square and the cubic lattice.Keywords
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