Mean end-to-end distance of branched polymers
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- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 12 (9), L239-L244
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/9/004
Abstract
The author uses Monte Carlo methods to calculate the mean end-to-end distance of randomly branched polymer molecules. Molecular realisations are brown on the square and simple cubic lattices, and consist of N bifunctional monomers and Nf polyfunctional branching units of functionality f. Three cases are treated in which the monomer branches are either random walks, self-avoiding walks (SAW), or SAW's except that different branches may join at their end points to form closed loops.Keywords
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