Geometrical Frustration in Interacting Self-Avoiding Walk Models of Polymers in Dilute Solution

Damien Foster

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    Abstract

    We look at the effects of geometric frustration in two-dimensional interacting self-avoiding walk models. Models in which these effects are present do not behave in the same way as the standard interacting self-avoiding walk model where an attractive interaction energy is included between non-consecutive, nearest-neighbour visited sites on the lattice. We present, in particular, the different numerical methods we have used to study these models, as well as some of the main results found for a number of different models.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationOrder, Disorder and Criticality
    Subtitle of host publicationAdvanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory
    EditorsYurij Holovatch
    PublisherWorld Scientific
    Chapter3
    Pages99-151
    Number of pages53
    Volume6
    Edition1
    ISBN (Electronic)9789811216237
    ISBN (Print)9789811216213
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2020

    Keywords

    • phase transitions
    • Polymer Models
    • Random walk

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