Scaling of Self-Avoiding Walks in High Dimensions

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2001-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104135v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

14 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/34/29/303

We examine self-avoiding walks in dimensions 4 to 8 using high-precision Monte-Carlo simulations up to length N=16384, providing the first such results in dimensions $d > 4$ on which we concentrate our analysis. We analyse the scaling behaviour of the partition function and the statistics of nearest-neighbour contacts, as well as the average geometric size of the walks, and compare our results to $1/d$-expansions and to excellent rigorous bounds that exist. In particular, we obtain precise values for the connective constants, $\mu_5=8.838544(3)$, $\mu_6=10.878094(4)$, $\mu_7=12.902817(3)$, $\mu_8=14.919257(2)$ and give a revised estimate of $\mu_4=6.774043(5)$. All of these are by at least one order of magnitude more accurate than those previously given (from other approaches in $d>4$ and all approaches in $d=4$). Our results are consistent with most theoretical predictions, though in $d=5$ we find clear evidence of anomalous $N^{-1/2}$-corrections for the scaling of the geometric size of the walks, which we understand as a non-analytic correction to scaling of the general form $N^{(4-d)/2}$ (not present in pure Gaussian random walks).

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