Hamiltonian dynamics of homopolymer chain models

Details Hamiltonian dynamics of homopolymer chain models Hamiltonian dynamics of homopolymer chain models

2006-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608516v1

Phys. Rev. E 74, 041805 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041805

The Hamiltonian dynamics of chains of nonlinearly coupled particles is numerically investigated in two and three dimensions. Simple, off-lattice homopolymer models are used to represent the interparticle potentials. Time averages of observables numerically computed along dynamical trajectories are found to reproduce results given by the statistical mechanics of homopolymer models. The dynamical treatment, however, indicates a nontrivial transition between regimes of slow and fast phase space mixing. Such a transition is inaccessible to a statistical mechanical treatment and reflects a bimodality in the relaxation of time averages to corresponding ensemble averages. It is also found that a change in the energy dependence of the largest Lyapunov exponent indicates the theta-transition between filamentary and globular polymer configurations, clearly detecting the transition even for a finite number of particles.

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