UC Berkeley                   Mini Statistical Mechanics Meeting                         15 January 2011

Entropic force of a polymer attached to a conical tip


How many polymers fluctuate on the tip of a pin?

Mehran Kardar

Mohammad Maghrebi, Yacov Kantor


Outline

I.      Entropic force on polymers:  Relation to other polymer exponents   

II.    Phantom polymers: Exact results from the diffusion propagator

III.   Self-avoiding polymers: Numerical results, and ε-expansions

IV.   Many polymers: Results from star polymers