Sequence randomness and polymer collapse transitions

Abstract

Contrary to expectations based on Harris' criterion, chain disorder with frustration can modify the universality class of scaling at the theta transition of heteropolymers. This is shown for a model with random two-body potentials in 2D on the basis of exact enumeration and accurate Monte Carlo results. When frustration grows beyond a certain finite threshold, the temperature below which disorder becomes relevant coincides with the theta one and scaling exponents definitely start deviating from those valid for homopolymers.

4 pages, 4 eps figures

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