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Volume 110, Number 5, June 2015
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Article Number | 58001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/110/58001 | |
Published online | 23 June 2015 |
Cluster coarsening during polymer collapse: Finite-size scaling analysis
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig - Postfach 100 920, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany
(a) Suman.Majumder@itp.uni-leipzig.de
(b) Wolfhard.Janke@itp.uni-leipzig.de
Received: 18 February 2015
Accepted: 20 May 2015
We study the kinetics of the collapse of a single flexible polymer when it is quenched from a good solvent to a poor solvent. Results obtained from Monte Carlo simulations show that the collapse occurs through a sequence of events with the formation, growth and subsequent coalescence of clusters of monomers to a single compact globule. Particular emphasis is given in this work to the cluster growth during the collapse, analyzed via the application of finite-size scaling techniques. The growth exponent obtained in our analysis is suggestive of the universal Lifshitz-Slyozov mechanism of cluster growth. The methods used in this work could be of more general validity and applicable to other phenomena such as protein folding.
PACS: 82.35.Lr – Physical properties of polymers / 64.70.km – Polymers / 87.15.A- – Theory, modeling, and computer simulation
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