Fluctuation Effects on Microphase Separation in Random Copolymers

Details Fluctuation Effects on Microphase Separation in Random Copolymers Fluctuation Effects on Microphase Separation in Random Copolymers

1994-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9406067v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

20 pages, RevTex, includes two uuencoded figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/27/24/008

We study random copolymers consisted of two kinds of monomers with attraction between similar kinds. The mean field analysis of this system indicates a continuous phase transition into a phase with periodic microdomain structure. It is shown that the inverse of the renormalized propagator has a minimum at non-zero wave-numbers. Consequently, there is an anomalously large contribution of fluctuations that make the disordered phase locally stable at every finite temperature. However, below a certain temperature, the ordered phase is shown to be locally stable and a weak first order transition is possible, similar to the weak crystallization theory developed by Brazovskii.

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