Renormalization group calculation of the universal critical exponents of a polymer molecule
Posted on:1998-11-12
Degree:Ph.D
Type:Dissertation
University:University of Guelph (Canada)
Candidate:Belohorec, Peter
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GTID:1461390014975621
Subject:Physics
Abstract/Summary:
In this work the excluded volume problem of a linear flexible polymer molecule in a solution was investigated using a new method. The Domb-Joyce (DJ) lattice model (Domb C. and Joyce G. S. (1972). J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 5 956) was used to describe the polymer chain with a varying excluded volume parameterramateur w and bond number N. Monte Carlo (MC) generated data for the mean square end-to-end distance...