The collapse transition for the lattice trees
- 7 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 24 (15) , 3655-3670
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/24/15/031
Abstract
The authors consider a lattice tree model for the collapse of dilute branched polymers in the good solvent regime in which the collapse is driven by a near-neighbour contact fugacity. They describe some rigorous results, including bounds, for the temperature dependence of the reduced limiting free energy and compare these results with numerical estimates derived from exact enumeration data. From the specific heat, they estimate the collapse temperature Tc and the cross-over exponent phi 0 in two and three dimensions. They find phi 0=0.60+or-0.03 (d=2) and phi 0=0.82+or-0.03 (d=3). Finally, they speculate on a possible roughening transition which may occur at a temperature Tr(Tc.Keywords
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