Anomalous tricritical behaviour in the coil-globule transition of a single polymer chain

Details Anomalous tricritical behaviour in the coil-globule transition of a single polymer chain Anomalous tricritical behaviour in the coil-globule transition of a single polymer chain

2000-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005049v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

We investigate a model of self-avoiding walk exhibiting a first-order coil-globule transition. This first-order nature, unravelled through the coexistence of distinct coil and globule populations, has observable consequences on the scaling properties. A thorough analysis of the size dependence of the mean radius of gyration evidences a breakdown of the plain tricritical scaling behaviour. In some regimes, anomalous exponents are observed in the transition region and logarithmic corrections arise along the coexistence curve.

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