Force-induced unfolding of a homopolymer on a fractal lattice: exact results versus mean-field predictions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/18/101MaRDI QIDQ4465672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202236

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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.

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