Surface transition in the collapsed phase of a self-interacting walk adsorbed along a hard wall

DOI10.1214/22-AOP1567zbMATH Open1504.60193arXiv2007.11313OpenAlexW3044385577MaRDI QIDQ2139107FDOQ2139107

Alexandre Legrand, Nicolas Pétrélis

Publication date: 17 May 2022

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present paper is dedicated to the 2-dimensional Interacting Partially Directed Self Avoiding Walk constrained to remain in the upper-half plan and interacting with the horizontal axis. The model has been introduced in cite{F90} to investigate the behavior of a homopolymer dipped in a poor solvent and adsorbed along a horizontal hard wall. It is known to undergo a collapse transition between an extended phase, inside which typical configurations of the polymer have a large horizontal extension (comparable to their total size), and a collapsed phase inside which the polymer looks like a globule. In the present paper, we establish rigorously that inside the collapsed phase, a surface transition occurs between an adsorbed-collapsed regime where the bottommost layer of the globule is pinned at the hard wall, and a desorbed-collapsed regime where the globule wanders away from the wall. To prove the existence of this surface transition and exhibit its associated critical curve, we display some sharp asymptotics of the partition function for a slightly simplified version of the model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11313

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionpolymer collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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