Accurate effective pair potentials for polymer solutions
arXiv:cond-mat/0009093 · doi:10.1063/1.1344606
Abstract
Dilute or semi-dilute solutions of non-intersecting self-avoiding walk (SAW) polymer chains are mapped onto a fluid of ``soft'' particles interacting via an effective pair potential between their centers of mass. This mapping is achieved by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the original polymer chains, using integral equation techniques from the theory of simple fluids. The resulting effective pair potential is finite at all distances, has a range of the order of the radius of gyration, and turns out to be only moderately concentration-dependent. The dependence of the effective potential on polymer length is analyzed in an effort to extract the scaling limit. The effective potential is used to derive the osmotic equation of state, which is compared to simulation data for the full SAW segment model, and to the predictions of renormalization group calculations. A similar inversion procedure is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential from the center of mass density profiles near the wall, obtained from simulations of the full polymer segment model. The resulting wall-polymer potential turns out to depend strongly on bulk polymer concentration when polymer-polymer correlations are taken into account, leading to a considerable enhancement of the effective repulsion with increasing concentration. The effective polymer-polymer and wall-polymer potentials are combined to calculate the depletion interaction induced by SAW polymers between two walls. The calculated depletion interaction agrees well with the ``exact'' results from much more computer-intensive direct simulation of the full polymer-segment model, and clearly illustrates the inadequacy -- in the semi-dilute regime -- of the standard Asakura-Oosawa approximation based on the assumption of non-interacting polymer coils.
18 pages, 24 figures, ReVTeX, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
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