Opacity and entanglement of polymer chains

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/303zbMATH Open0994.82111arXivcond-mat/0007250OpenAlexW3105349714MaRDI QIDQ4534839FDOQ4534839

P. Grassberger

Publication date: 11 June 2002

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

Abstract: We argue that the mean crossing number of a random polymer configuration is simply a measure of opacity, without being closely related to entanglement as claimed by several authors. We present an easy way of estimating its asymptotic behaviour numerically. These estimates agree for random walks (theta polymers), self-avoiding walks, and for compact globules with analytic estimates giving $logN,a-b/N^{2u-1},$ and $N^{1/3}$, respectively, for the average number of crossings per monomer in the limit $Noinfty$. While the result for compact globules agrees with a rigorous previous estimate, the result for SAWs disagrees with previous numerical estimates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007250

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementopacityrandom polymer configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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