Scaling of self-avoiding walks in high dimensions.

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/29/303MaRDI QIDQ2757897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksander L. Owczarek, Thomas Prellberg

Publication date 5 December 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104135

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: We examine self-avoiding walks in dimensions 4 to 8 using high-precision Monte-Carlo simulations up to length N=16384, providing the first such results in dimensions $d>4$ on which we concentrate our analysis. We analyse the scaling behaviour of the partition function and the statistics of nearest-neighbour contacts, as well as the average geometric size of the walks, and compare our results to $1/d$-expansions and to excellent rigorous bounds that exist. In particular, we obtain precise values for the connective constants, $m{u}_5=8.838544(3)$, $m{u}_6=10.878094(4)$, $m{u}_7=12.902817(3)$, $m{u}_8=14.919257(2)$ and give a revised estimate of $m{u}_4=6.774043(5)$. All of these are by at least one order of magnitude more accurate than those previously given (from other approaches in $d>4$ and all approaches in $d=4$). Our results are consistent with most theoretical predictions, though in $d=5$ we find clear evidence of anomalous $N^{-1/2}$-corrections for the scaling of the geometric size of the walks, which we understand as a non-analytic correction to scaling of the general form $N^{(4-d)/2}$ (not present in pure Gaussian random walks).

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