title: Multifractal behavior of linear polymers in disordered media.
abstract: The scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media modeled by self-avoiding random walks (SAWs) on the backbone of two- and three-dimensional percolation clusters at their critical concentrations p(c) is studied. All possible SAW configurations of N steps on a single backbone configuration are enumerated exactly. We find that the moments of order q of the total number of SAWs obtained by averaging over many backbone configurations display multifractal behavior; i.e., different moments are dominated by different subsets of the backbone. This leads to generalized coordination numbers mu(q) and enhancement exponents gamma(q), which depend on q. Our numerical results suggest that the relation mu(1)=p(c)mu between the first moment mu(1) and its regular lattice counterpart mu is valid.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ordemann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porto
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Roman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Havlin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bunde