title: Pulling self-interacting polymers in two dimensions.
abstract: We investigate a two-dimensional problem of an isolated self-interacting end-grafted polymer, pulled by one end. In the thermodynamic limit, we find that the model has only two different phases, namely a collapsed phase and a stretched phase. We show that the phase diagram obtained by Kumar [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 128101 (2007)] for small systems, where differences between various statistical ensembles play an important role, differs from the phase diagram obtained here in the thermodynamic limit.
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. j.krawczyk@ms.unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krawczyk
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Owczarek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D008956:Models, Chemical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D044367:Phase Transition; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers