SURFACE CRITICAL EXPONENTS OF SELF-AVOIDING WALKS AND TRAILS ON A SQUARE LATTICE - THE UNIVERSALITY CLASSES OF THE THETA AND THETA' POINTS

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作者
CHANG, I
MEIROVITCH, H
机构
[1] PUSAN NATL UNIV,DIELECT & ADV MATTER PHYS RES CTR,PUSAN,SOUTH KOREA
[2] PUSAN NATL UNIV,COLL NAT SCI,DEPT PHYS,PUSAN,SOUTH KOREA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2232
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Using the scanning method we carry out for the first time extensive simulations of trails and self-avoiding walks (SAWs) terminally attached to an adsorbing linear boundary on a square lattice. A bulk attraction energy is also defined for a self-intersection of a trail and a pair of nonbonded nearest-neighbor monomers of a SAW. The chains are simulated at the special point. Our critical exponents differ significantly from the exact values of Vanderzande, Stella, and Seno [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2757 (1991)] for the theta' model. Thus, their conjecture, that the theta and theta' points belong to the same universality class, is not supported.
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页码:2232 / 2235
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