Effect of grafting on the binding transition of two flexible polymers
arXiv:1612.01778 · doi:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60317-2
Abstract
We investigate the binding transition of two flexible polymers grafted to a steric surface with closeby end points. While free polymers show a discontinuous transition, grafting to a steric flat surface leads to a continuous binding transition. This is supported by results from Metropolis and parallel multicanonical simulations. A combination of canonical and microcanonical analyses reveals that the change in transition order can be understood in terms of the reduced translational entropy of the unbound high-temperature phase upon grafting.
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J Spec. Topics
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