Adsorption transition of a self-avoiding polymer chain onto a rigid rod
arXiv:cond-mat/0504318 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/17/20/006
Abstract
The subject of this work is the adsorption transition of a long flexible self-avoiding polymer chain onto a rigid thin rod. The rod is represented by a cylinder of radius R with a short-ranged attractive surface potential for the chain monomers. General scaling results are obtained by using renormalization group arguments in conjunction with available results for quantum field theories with curved boundaries [McAvity and Osborn 1993 Nucl. Phys. B 394, 728]. Relevant critical exponents are identified and estimated using geometric arguments.
19 pages, 4 figures. To appear in: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, special issue dedicated to Lothar Schaefer on the occasion of his 60th birthday