Adsorbing staircase polygons subject to a force

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA922FzbMATH Open1382.82052arXiv1706.07653OpenAlexW3102656375MaRDI QIDQ4600892FDOQ4600892

Nicholas R. Beaton

Publication date: 18 January 2018

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

Abstract: We study several models of staircase polygons on the $45^{c}irc$ rotated square lattice, which interact with an impenetrable surface while also being pushed towards or pulled away from the surface by a force. The surface interaction is governed by a fugacity $a$ and the force by a fugacity $y$. Staircase polygons are simplifications of more general self-avoiding polygons, a well-studied model of interacting ring polymers. For this simplified case we are able to exactly determine the limiting free energy in the full $a$-$y$ plane, and demonstrate that staircase polygons exhibit four different phases, including a "mixed" adsorbed-ballistic phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07653

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zbMATH Keywords

polygonslattice pathspolymersadsorption

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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