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

DOI10.1023/A:1004572416345MaRDI QIDQ1809136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Müller

Publication date 25 November 1999

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

long polymermany-chain systemperturbative approachpolymer dynamicsquenched random mediumstandard renormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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