Rare-event induced binding transition of heteropolymers

Details Rare-event induced binding transition of heteropolymers Rare-event induced binding transition of heteropolymers

2000-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007350v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.830

Sequence heterogeneity broadens the binding transition of a polymer onto a linear or planar substrate. This effect is analyzed in a real-space renormalization group scheme designed to capture the statistics of rare events. In the strongly disordered regime, binding initiates at an exponentially rare set of ``good contacts''. Renormalization of the contact potential yields a Kosterlitz-Thouless type transition in any dimension. This and other predictions are confirmed by extensive numerical simulations of a directed polymer interacting with a columnar defect.

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