Distance dependence of angular correlations in dense polymer solutions

Details Distance dependence of angular correlations in dense polymer solutions Distance dependence of angular correlations in dense polymer solutions

2009-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3340v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

17 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication at Macromolecules

Scientific paper

Angular correlations in dense solutions and melts of flexible polymer chains are investigated with respect to the distance $r$ between the bonds by comparing quantitative predictions of perturbation calculations with numerical data obtained by Monte Carlo simulation of the bond-fluctuation model. We consider both monodisperse systems and grand-canonical (Flory-distributed) equilibrium polymers. Density effects are discussed as well as finite chain length corrections. The intrachain bond-bond correlation function $P(r)$ is shown to decay as $P(r) \sim 1/r^3$ for $\xi \ll r \ll \r^*$ with $\xi$ being the screening length of the density fluctuations and $r^* \sim N^{1/3}$ a novel length scale increasing slowly with (mean) chain length $N$.

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