Thursday, December 27, 2012

1212.6144 (M. Marenz et al.)

Simple flexible polymers in a spherical cage    [PDF]

M. Marenz, J. Zierenberg, H. Arkin, W. Janke
We report the results of Monte Carlo simulations investigating the effect of a spherical confinement within a simple model for a flexible homopolymer. We use the parallel tempering method combined with multi-histogram reweighting analysis and multicanonical simulations to investigate thermodynamical observables over a broad range of temperatures, which enables us to describe the behavior of the polymer and to locate the freezing and collapse transitions. We find a strong effect of the spherical confinement on the location of the collapse transition, whereas the freezing transition is hardly effected.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6144

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