Correct correspondence between self-avoiding random walks and a magnetic system ason a lattice
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 24 (5) , 2854-2856
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.24.2854
Abstract
It is pointed out that if one considers the limit of a magnetic system consisting of -component classical spins on a lattice, one indeed obtains a correspondence with a system of self-avoiding random walks, that is, polymer chains with excluded volume in a solution, but the correspondence is not isomorphic. It turns out that and do not serve as the activities for the polymer system, which in fact are given by and , where . Moreover, the polymer free energy is also different from the magnetic free energy in the limit . It is also pointed out that satisfies the proper convexity properties, even though need not.
Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Polymer statistics, the-vector model, and thermodynamic stabilityPhysical Review A, 1981
- A new approach to polymer solution theoryJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1980
- Renormalized field theory of polymer solutions. I. Scaling lawsThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1977
- The Lagrangian theory of polymer solutions at intermediate concentrationsJournal de Physique, 1975
- Phase transitions for one and zero dimensional systems with short-range forcesAnnals of Physics, 1974
- Exponents for the excluded volume problem as derived by the Wilson methodPhysics Letters A, 1972