Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-03-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
8 pages, plain-TeX, figures available upon request
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/29/9/009
Polymer chains with hard-core interaction on a two-dimensional lattice are modeled by directed random walks. Two models, one with intersecting walks (IW) and another with non-intersecting walks (NIW) are presented, solved and compared. The exact solution of the two models, based on a representation using Grassmann variables, leads, surprisingly, to the same analytic expression for the polymer density and identical phase diagrams. There are three different phases as a function of hopping probability and single site monomer occupancy, with a transition from the dense polymer system to a polymer liquid (A) and a transition from the liquid to an empty lattice (B). Within the liquid phase there exists a self-dual line with peculiar properties. The derivative of polymer density with respect to the single site monomer occupancy diverges at transitions A and B, but is smooth across and along the self-dual line. The density-density correlation function along the direction $x$, perpendicular to the axis of directedness has a power law decay 1/$x^2$ in the entire liquid phase, in both models. The difference between the two models shows up only in the behavior of the correlation function along the self-dual line: it decays exponentially in the IW model and as 1/$x^4$ in the NIW model.
Forgacs Gabor
Ziegler Karen
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