Scaling properties of weakly self-avoiding fractional Brownian motion in one dimension (Q906927): Difference between revisions

The authors are interested in understanding a class of polymers known as chain polymers. To this end, they simulate fractional Brownian motion with a penalty for self-intersection based on an off-lattice discretisation method. They use these simulations to calculate the second moment of the end-to-end length for various sizes of the polymer and show that the scaling behaviour (Flory index) matches with the mean-field prediction.