Mean-field tricritical polymers

DOI10.2140/PMP.2020.1.167MaRDI QIDQ2669256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roland Bauerschmidt, Gordon Slade

Publication date 9 March 2022

Published in Probability and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00395

zbMATH Keywords

complete graphmean fieldphase transitionpolymer modeltheta pointtricritical point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Laplace transform (44A10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We provide an introductory account of a tricritical phase diagram, in the setting of a mean-field random walk model of a polymer density transition, and clarify the nature of the density transition in this context. We consider a continuous-time random walk model on the complete graph, in the limit as the number of vertices $N$ in the graph grows to infinity. The walk has a repulsive self-interaction, as well as a competing attractive self-interaction whose strength is controlled by a parameter $g$. A chemical potential $u$ controls the walk length. We determine the phase diagram in the $(g,u)$ plane, as a model of a density transition for a single linear polymer chain. A dilute phase (walk of bounded length) is separated from a dense phase (walk of length of order $N$) by a phase boundary curve. The phase boundary is divided into two parts, corresponding to first-order and second-order phase transitions, with the division occurring at a tricritical point. The proof uses a supersymmetric representation for the random walk model, followed by a single block-spin renormalisation group step to reduce the problem to a 1-dimensional integral, followed by application of the Laplace method for an integral with a large parameter.

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