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Lattice models of polymers

By Carlo Vanderzande

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780511563935, 0521559936, 0511563930, 9780521559935
LCC
QC173.4.P65 V36 1998
Open Library ID
OL685289M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1094598 bytes)
Series
Cambridge lecture notes in physics 11
Pages
236\236
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This is a comprehensive introduction to lattice models of polymers, an important topic both in the theory of critical phenomena and the modeling of polymers. The first two chapters introduce the basic theory of random, directed and self-avoiding walks. The book then goes on to develop and expand this theory to explore the self-avoiding walk in both two and three dimensions. Following chapters describe polymers near a surface, dense polymers, self interacting polymers and branched polymers. The book closes with discussions of some geometrical and topological properties of polymers, and of self-avoiding surfaces on a lattice. The volume combines results from rigorous analytical and numerical work to give a coherent picture of the properties of lattice models of polymers. This book will be valuable for graduate students and researchers working in statistical mechanics, theoretical physics and polymer physics. It will also be of interest to those working in applied mathematics and theoretical chemistry.

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