Scale-free static and dynamical correlations in melts of monodisperse and Flory-distributed homopolymers

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0354-0zbMATH Open1231.82092arXiv1107.4454OpenAlexW2594740488MaRDI QIDQ658451FDOQ658451

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 12 January 2012

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been assumed until very recently that all long-range correlations are screened in three-dimensional melts of linear homopolymers on distances beyond the correlation length $xi$ characterizing the decay of the density fluctuations. Summarizing simulation results obtained by means of a variant of the bond-fluctuation model with finite monomer excluded volume interactions and topology violating local and global Monte Carlo moves, we show that due to an interplay of the chain connectivity and the incompressibility constraint, both static and dynamical correlations arise on distances $rggxi$. These correlations are scale-free and, surprisingly, do not depend explicitly on the compressibility of the solution. Both monodisperse and (essentially) Flory-distributed equilibrium polymers are considered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4454

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationspolymer meltstime-dependent properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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