Pseudo-First-Order Transition in Interacting Self-avoiding Walks and Trails

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2001-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108390v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages with 2 figures included, CCP2001 submission

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00352-1

The coil-globule transition of an isolated polymer has been well established to be a second-order phase transition described by a standard tricritical O(0) field theory. We present Monte-Carlo simulations of interacting self-avoiding walks and interacting self-avoiding trails in four dimensions which provide compelling evidence that the approach to this (tri)critical point is dominated by the build-up of first-order-like singularities masking the second-order nature of the coil-globule transition.

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