Numerical studies of collapsing polymers
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 10 (4), 637-647
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/10/4/025
Abstract
The behaviour of a polymer dissolved in a poor solvent is studied using the self-interacting self-avoiding walk model. The properties of short polymers are generated by exact enumeration methods and the results extrapolated to large systems. Evidence supporting the existence of a phase transition is obtained. The exponents governing the length dependence of the partition function and moments of the distribution functions appear to be temperature dependent.Keywords
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