Collapse of Randomly Linked Polymers
classification
❄️ cond-mat
keywords
monomerspolymersrandomlyanalyticalargumentsbrygelsonchaincollapse
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We consider polymers in which M randomly selected pairs of monomers are restricted to be in contact. Analytical arguments and numerical simulations show that an ideal (Gaussian) chain of N monomers remains expanded as long as M<<N. This result is inconsistent with results obtained from free energy considerations by Brygelson and Thirumalai (PRL76, 542 (1996)).
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