Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2000-03-20
Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) R1005
Physics
Condensed Matter
6 pages, 5 postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.61.R1005
We study the structural properties of self-attracting walks in d dimensions using scaling arguments and Monte Carlo simulations. We find evidence for a transition analogous to the \Theta transition of polymers. Above a critical attractive interaction u_c, the walk collapses and the exponents \nu and k, characterising the scaling with time t of the mean square end-to-end distance ~ t^k, are universal and given by \nu=1/(d+1) and k=d/(d+1). Below u_c, the walk swells and the exponents are as with no interaction, i.e. \nu=1/2 for all d, k=1/2 for d=1 and k=1 for d >= 2. At u_c, the exponents are found to be in a different universality class.
Berkolaiko Gregory
Bunde Armin
Havlin Shlomo
Ordemann Anke
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