TY - JOUR
T1 - Excluded-volume expansion of polymer chains
T2 - A Monte Carlo study of the scaling properties
AU - Webman, I.
AU - Lebowitz, Joel
AU - Kalos, M. H.
PY - 1980/1/1
Y1 - 1980/1/1
N2 - Results are presented of Monte Carlo simulations of continuum-model polymer chains which results confirm the idea that for long chains the degree of expansion due to excluded volume depends on the interaction range σ, on N, the number of links, and on the link size a through a single variable z(σa)3N. The expansion factor ψ(z) is very close in form to that found by Lax, Barrett, and Domb for lattice models of a polymer. For z, ψ(z) follows a power law predicted by Flory. For finite chains there are corrections to ψ(z) which depend on N and on the form of the interaction.
AB - Results are presented of Monte Carlo simulations of continuum-model polymer chains which results confirm the idea that for long chains the degree of expansion due to excluded volume depends on the interaction range σ, on N, the number of links, and on the link size a through a single variable z(σa)3N. The expansion factor ψ(z) is very close in form to that found by Lax, Barrett, and Domb for lattice models of a polymer. For z, ψ(z) follows a power law predicted by Flory. For finite chains there are corrections to ψ(z) which depend on N and on the form of the interaction.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.21.5540
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.21.5540
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35949024968
VL - 21
SP - 5540
EP - 5543
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
SN - 0163-1829
IS - 12
ER -