Polyelectrolyte chains in poor solvent. A variational description of necklace formation

Details Polyelectrolyte chains in poor solvent. A variational description of necklace formation Polyelectrolyte chains in poor solvent. A variational description of necklace formation

2001-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106343v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

submitted to EPJE (soft matter)

Scientific paper

10.1007/s101890170009

We study the properties of polyelectrolyte chains under different solvent conditions, using a variational technique. The free energy and the conformational properties of a polyelectrolyte chain are studied minimizing the free energy $F_N$, depending on $N(N-1)/2$ trial probabilities that characterize the conformation of the chain. The Gaussian approximation is considered for a ring of length $2^4

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