Renormalisation group calculation of the second virial coefficient of a polymer solution to order epsilon2in d=4-ϵ dimensions
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 11 (12), 2483-2494
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/11/12/014
Abstract
Field theory renormalisation group methods are used to describe the crossover behaviour of the second virial coefficient A2 of the osmotic pressure for a monodisperse polymer solution as a function of temperature and molecular weight to second order in epsilon =4-d. The results are in significantly better agreement with experiment than previous renormalisation group calculations.Keywords
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