First-order scaling near a second-order phase transition: Tricritical polymer collapse
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First-order scaling near a second-order phase transition: Tricritical polymer collapse
– The coil-globule transition of an isolated polymer has been well established to be a second-order phase transition described by a standard tricritical O(0) field theory. We provide compelling evidence from Monte Carlo simulations in four dimensions, where mean-field theory should apply, that the approach to this (tri)critical point is dominated by the build-up of first-order–like singularitie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00380-5