Knot localization in adsorbing polymer rings

Details Knot localization in adsorbing polymer rings Knot localization in adsorbing polymer rings

2007-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1349v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

27 pages, 10 figures. Submitter to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051804

We study by Monte Carlo simulations a model of knotted polymer ring adsorbing onto an impenetrable, attractive wall. The polymer is described by a self-avoiding polygon (SAP) on the cubic lattice. We find that the adsorption transition temperature, the crossover exponent $\phi$ and the metric exponent $\nu$, are the same as in the model where the topology of the ring is unrestricted. By measuring the average length of the knotted portion of the ring we are able to show that adsorbed knots are localized. This knot localization transition is triggered by the adsorption transition but is accompanied by a less sharp variation of the exponent related to the degree of localization. Indeed, for a whole interval below the adsorption transition, one can not exclude a contiuous variation with temperature of this exponent. Deep into the adsorbed phase we are able to verify that knot localization is strong and well described in terms of the flat knot model.

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