Diffusion of a test chain in a quenched background of semidilute polymers

DOI10.1023/A:1004572416345zbMATH Open0964.82059arXivcond-mat/9903055OpenAlexW3099994271MaRDI QIDQ1809136FDOQ1809136

Authors: Stefan Müller 

Publication date: 25 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on a recently established formalism (U. Ebert, J. Stat. Phys. 82, 183 (1996)) we analyze the diffusive motion of a long polymer in a quenched random medium. The medium is modeled by a frozen semidilute polymer system. In the framework of standard renormalization group (RG) theory we present a systematic perturbative approach to handle such a many chain system. In contrast to the work of Ebert we here deal with long range correlated disorder and find an attractive RG fixed point. Unlike in polymer statics the semidilute limit here yields new nontrivial power laws for dynamic quantities. The exponents are intermediate between the Rouse and reptation results. An explicit one loop calculation for the center of mass motion is given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9903055

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zbMATH Keywords

polymer dynamicsperturbative approachlong polymermany-chain systemquenched random mediumstandard renormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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