Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-05-17
Phys.Rev.E 80, 041802 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
18 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041802
The massive field theory approach in fixed space dimensions $d=3$ is applied to investigate a dilute solution of long-flexible polymer chains in a good solvent between two parallel repulsive walls, two inert walls and for the mixed case of one inert and one repulsive wall. The well known correspondence between the field theoretical $\phi^4$ O(n)-vector model in the limit $n\to 0$ and the behavior of long-flexible polymer chains in a good solvent is used to calculate the depletion interaction potential and the depletion force up to one-loop order. Our investigations include modification of renormalization scheme for the case of two inert walls. The obtained results confirm that the depletion interaction potential and the resulting depletion force between two repulsive walls are weaker for chains with excluded volume interaction (EVI) than for ideal chains, because the EVI effectively reduces the depletion effect near the walls. Our results are in qualitative agreement with previous theoretical investigations, experimental results and with results of Monte Carlo simulations.
Romeis D.
Usatenko Z.
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