Many-body interactions and correlations in coarse-grained descriptions of polymer solutions.

We calculate the two-, three-, four-, and five-body (state-independent) effective potentials between the centers of mass (c.m.'s) of self-avoiding walk polymers by Monte Carlo simulations. For full overlap, these coarse-grained n-body interactions oscillate in sign as (-1)(n), and decrease in a...

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Main Authors: Bolhuis, P, Louis, A, Hansen, J
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2001