Transition from the compact to the dense phase of two-dimensional polymers

DOI10.1023/A:1004512230458MaRDI QIDQ1809134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Jané Kondev

Publication date 25 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9811085

zbMATH Keywords

charge asymmetrycompact polymersCoulomb gasLiouville field theoryscaling exponentstwo-dimensional polymers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We present a unifying picture of the compact, dense and dilute phases of two-dimensional polymers. The lattice dependence of the scaling exponents for compact polymers is reconciled with their universality in the dense and dilute case. In particular, we show that violations of the fully-packing constraint in the compact phase can be interpreted as magnetic screening in the associated Coulomb gas, which induces a flow to either the dense or the dilute phase. When more than one flavour of polymers is present the flow away from the compact phase leads to a decoupling of the flavours, and the central charge decreases by an integer. If charge asymmetry develops the polymer flavours may independently flow to either of the two non-compact phases.

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