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Collapse of Randomly Linked Polymers

Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9601095

Abstract

We consider polymers in which M randomly selected pairs of monomers are restricted to be in contact. Analytical arguments and numerical simulations show that an ideal (Gaussian) chain of N monomers remains expanded as long as M<<N. This result is inconsistent with results obtained from free energy considerations by Brygelson and Thirumalai (PRL76, 542 (1996)).

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