Pseudo-first-order transition in interacting self-avoiding walks and trails

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00352-1zbMATH Open0994.82521arXivcond-mat/0108390OpenAlexW3102336300MaRDI QIDQ696685FDOQ696685

Authors: Thomas Prellberg, Aleksander L. Owczarek 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The coil-globule transition of an isolated polymer has been well established to be a second-order phase transition described by a standard tricritical O(0) field theory. We present Monte-Carlo simulations of interacting self-avoiding walks and interacting self-avoiding trails in four dimensions which provide compelling evidence that the approach to this (tri)critical point is dominated by the build-up of first-order-like singularities masking the second-order nature of the coil-globule transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108390

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationsinteracting self-avoiding walksisolated polymer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Four-dimensional polymer collapse II: interacting self-avoiding trails
• The collapse point of interacting trails in two dimensions from kinetic growth simulations

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