Critical behaviour of the Rouse model for gelling polymers

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/42/002zbMATH Open1039.82039arXivcond-mat/0303205OpenAlexW1982973239MaRDI QIDQ4468624FDOQ4468624

Authors: Peter Müller 

Publication date: 10 June 2004

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

Abstract: It is shown that the traditionally accepted "Rouse values" for the critical exponents at the gelation transition do not arise from the Rouse model for gelling polymers. The true critical behaviour of the Rouse model for gelling polymers is obtained from spectral properties of the connectivity matrix of the fractal clusters that are formed by the molecules. The required spectral properties are related to the return probability of a "blind ant"-random walk on the critical percolating cluster. The resulting scaling relations express the critical exponents of the shear-stress-relaxation function, and hence those of the shear viscosity and of the first normal stress coefficient, in terms of the spectral dimension $d_s$ of the critical percolating cluster and the exponents $sigma$ and $au$ of the cluster-size distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303205

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

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