Segmental distribution properties of a polymer chain near an interacting barrier |
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Authors: | Melvin Lax |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Bar-Han University, Ramat-Gan, Israel |
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Abstract: | The exact distribution of segments for self-avoiding walks of lengths N=4–14 bonds in the presence of an interacting barrier on the diamond lattice has been obtained by the method of direct enumeration. Behavior for the infinite chain was estimated and compared with Rubin's results for the normal random walk. It is shown that the onset of a well defined transition for the self-avoiding walk coincides with the location predicted for the normal random walk. It was found that for a self-avoiding walk a plot of θ2 (the fraction of segments in level z) versus the interaction parameter φ is shifted to the right (higher φ), for all z, as compared with a similar plot for the normal random walk. Conditional probabilities for a self-avoiding walk having its t th segment in level z (when φ=0) are reported. |
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