Phase Transitions in Pressurised Semiflexible Polymer Rings

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2007-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/0708.3318v1

Physical Review E Vol. 77, pg 041802 (2008).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.041802

We propose and study a model for the equilibrium statistical mechanics of a pressurised semiflexible polymer ring. The Hamiltonian has a term which couples to the algebraic area of the ring and a term which accounts for bending (semiflexibility). The model allows for self-intersections. Using a combination of Monte Carlo simulations, Flory-type scaling theory, mean-field approximations and lattice enumeration techniques, we obtain a phase diagram in which collapsed and inflated phases are separated by a continuous transition. The scaling properties of the averaged area as a function of the number of units of the ring are derived. For large pressures, the asymptotic behaviour of the area is calculated for both discrete and lattice versions of the model. For small pressures, the area is obtained through a mapping onto the quantum mechanical problem of an electron moving in a magnetic field. The simulation data agree well with the analytic and mean-field results.

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