Bond percolation of polymers

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/29/L02MaRDI QIDQ3158714zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manoj Gopalakrishnan, B. Schmittmann, R. K. P. Zia

Publication date 31 January 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404266

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Percolation (82B43) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We study bond percolation of $N$ non-interacting Gaussian polymers of $ell$ segments on a 2D square lattice of size $L$ with reflecting boundaries. Through simulations, we find the fraction of configurations displaying {em no} connected cluster which span from one edge to the opposite edge. From this fraction, we define a critical segment density $h{o}_c^L(ell)$ and the associated critical fraction of occupied bonds $p_c^L(ell)$, so that they can be identified as the percolation threshold in the $Loinfty$ limit. Whereas $p_c^L(ell)$ is found to decrease monotonically with $ell$ for a wide range of polymer lengths, $h{o}_c^L(ell)$ is non-monotonic. We give physical arguments for this intriguing behavior in terms of the competing effects of multiple bond occupancies and polymerization.

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