Year: 2000
Type: preprint
Abstract: We propose new polymer models for Monte Carlo simulation and apply them to a polymer chain confined in a relatively thin box which has both curved and flat sides, and show that either an ideal or an excluded-volume chain spends more time in the curved region than in the flat region. The ratio of the probability of finding a chain in the curved region and in flat region increases exponentially with increasing chain length. The results for ideal chains are quantitatively consistent with a previously published theory. We find that the same effect appears with excluded-volume chains and a similar scaling relation can be applied to them up to a certain length of the polymer.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Suzuki, Y. Y., Dotera, T., Hirabayashi, M.
Institutions: NTT Basic Research Laboratories, The Open University of Japan
Language: English
Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1642843615