title: Polymer depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls.
abstract: The depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls confining a dilute solution of long and flexible polymer chains is studied by field-theoretic methods. Special attention is paid to self-avoidance between chain monomers relevant for polymers in a good solvent. Our direct approach avoids the mapping of the actual polymer chains on effective hard or soft spheres. We compare our results with recent Monte Carlo simulations [A. Milchev and K. Binder, Eur. Phys. J. B 3, 477 (1998)] and with experimental results for the depletion interaction between a spherical colloidal particle and a planar wall in a dilute solution of nonionic polymers [D. Rudhardt, C. Bechinger, and P. Leiderer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1330 (1998)].
authors: Fachbereich Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Schlesener
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authors: Hanke
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authors: R
authors: Klimpel
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authors: Dietrich