Force-induced unfolding of a homopolymer on a fractal lattice: exact results versus mean-field predictions
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DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/18/101zbMATH Open1053.82529arXivcond-mat/0202236OpenAlexW2159021224MaRDI QIDQ4465672FDOQ4465672
Authors: Davide Marenduzzo, Amos Maritan, Flavio Seno 
Publication date: 9 June 2004
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the force-induced unfolding of a homopolymer on the three dimensional Sierpinski gasket. The polymer is subject to a contact energy between nearest neighbour sites not consecutive along the chain and to a stretching force. The hierarchical nature of the lattice we consider allows for an exact treatment which yields the phase diagram and the critical behaviour. We show that for this model mean field predictions are not correct, in particular in the exact phase diagram there is {em not} a low temperature reentrance and we find that the force induced unfolding transition below the theta temperature is second order.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202236
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