Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
1997-12-03
Phys. Rev. E 58, R24-R27 (1998)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
REVTEX, 5 pages. Minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.58.R24
Signatures of the vulcanization transition--amorphous solidification induced by the random crosslinking of macromolecules--include the random localization of a fraction of the particles and the emergence of a nonzero static shear modulus. A semi-microscopic statistical-mechanical theory is presented of the latter signature that accounts for both thermal fluctuations and quenched disorder. It is found (i) that the shear modulus grows continuously from zero at the transition, and does so with the classical exponent, i.e., with the third power of the excess cross-link density and, quite surprisingly, (ii) that near the transition the external stresses do not spoil the spherical symmetry of the localization clouds of the particles.
Castillo Horacio E.
Goldbart Paul M.
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