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تسجيل مستخدم جديدDistance dependence of angular correlations in dense polymer solutions
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Angular correlations in dense solutions and melts of flexible polymer chains are investigated with respect to the distance $r$ between the bonds by comparing quantitative predictions of perturbation calculations with numerical data obtained by Monte Carlo simulation of the bond-fluctuation model. We consider both monodisperse systems and grand-canonical (Flory-distributed) equilibrium polymers. Density effects are discussed as well as finite chain length corrections. The intrachain bond-bond correlation function $P(r)$ is shown to decay as $P(r) sim 1/r^3$ for $xi ll r ll r^*$ with $xi$ being the screening length of the density fluctuations and $r^* sim N^{1/3}$ a novel length scale increasing slowly with (mean) chain length $N$.
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