Rutgers University                     108th Statistical Mechanics Conference                       December 18, 2012

Polymer-mediated entropic forces between scale-free objects


Mohammad Maghrebi

Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar


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