title: Interacting growth walk: a model for hyperquenched homopolymer glass?
abstract: We show that the compact self-avoiding walk configurations, kinetically generated by the recently introduced interacting growth walk (IGW) model, can be considered as members of a canonical ensemble if they are assigned random values of energy. Such a mapping is necessary for studying the thermodynamic behavior of this system. We have presented the specific heat data for the IGW, obtained from extensive simulations on a square lattice; we observe a broad hump in the specific heat above the theta point, contrary to expectation.
authors.affiliation: Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai-400 085, India. slnoo@magnum.barc.ernet.in
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Narasimhan
authors.forename: P S R
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Krishna
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rajarajan
authors.forename: K P N
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Murthy