Directed-polymer systems explored via their quantum analogs: General polymer interactions and their consequences
Directed-polymer systems explored via their quantum analogs: General polymer interactions and their consequences
The impact of polymer-polymer interactions of various types on the thermodynamics, structure, and accommodation of topological constraints is addressed for systems comprising many directed polymers in two spatial dimensions. The approach is predicated on the well-known equivalence between the classical equilibrium statistical mechanics of directed polymers in two spatial dimensions …