Exponents of intrachain correlation for self-avoiding walks and knotted self-avoiding polygons

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/34/345001MaRDI QIDQ2848006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erica Uehara, Tetsuo Deguchi

Publication date 25 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2262

zbMATH Keywords

critical exponentsself-avoiding polygonsself-avoiding walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We show numerically that critical exponents for two-point interchain correlation of an infinite chain characterize those of finite chains in Self-Avoiding Walk (SAW) and Self-Avoiding Polygon (SAP) under a topological constraint. We evaluate short-distance exponents $heta(i,j)$ through the probability distribution functions of the distance between the $i$th and $j$th vertices of $N$-step SAW (or SAP with a knot) for all pairs ($1lei,jleN$). We construct the contour plot of $heta(i,j)$, and express it as a function of $i$ and $j$. We suggest that it has quite a simple structure. Here exponents $heta(i,j)$ generalize des Cloizeaux's three critical exponents for short-distance interchain correlation of SAW, and we show the crossover among them. We also evaluate the diffusion coefficient of knotted SAP for a few knot types, which can be calculated with the probability distribution functions of the distance between two nodes.

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