Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited

Details Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited

2011-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1105.2121v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 4 figures, EPL format

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We study pressurised self-avoiding ring polymers in two dimensions using Monte Carlo simulations, scaling arguments and Flory-type theories, through models which generalise the model of Leibler, Singh and Fisher [Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 59, 1989 (1987)]. We demonstrate the existence of a thermodynamic phase transition at a non-zero scaled pressure $\tilde{p}$, where $\tilde{p} = Np/4\pi$, with the number of monomers $N \rightarrow \infty$ and the pressure $p \rightarrow 0$, keeping $\tilde{p}$ constant, in a class of such models. This transition is driven by bond energetics and can be either continuous or discontinuous. It can be interpreted as a shape transition in which the ring polymer takes the shape, above the critical pressure, of a regular N-gon whose sides scale smoothly with pressure, while staying unfaceted below this critical pressure. In the general case, we argue that the transition is replaced by a sharp crossover. The area, however, scales with $N^2$ for all positive $p$ in all such models, consistent with earlier scaling theories.

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