Random polymer models [[electronic resource] /] / Giambattista Giacomin

• Autore: Giacomin Giambattista
• Pubblicazione: London, : Imperial College Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 518.28
• Soggetto topico: Statistical mechanics - Mathematical models; Polymers - Mathematical models; Polymeren; Wiskundige modellen
• Classificazione: 31.70; 31.80; 35.80
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Contents; Appendix C Effective Interface Models; 1. Random Polymer Models and their Applications; 2. The Homogeneous Pinning Model; 3. Weakly Inhomogeneous Models; 4. The Free Energy of Disordered Polymer Chains; 5. Disordered Pinning Models: The Phase Diagram; 6. Disordered Copolymers and Selective Interfaces: The Phase Diagram; 7. The Localized Phase of Disordered Polymers; 8. The Delocalized Phase of Disordered Polymers; 9. Numerical Algorithms and Computations; Appendix A Mathematical Tools; Appendix B Some Technical Estimates; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume introduces readers to the world of disordered systems and to some of the remarkable probabilistic techniques developed in the field. The author explores in depth a class of directed polymer models to which much attention has been devoted in the last 25 years, in particular in the fields of physical and biological sciences. The models treated have been widely used in studying, for example, the phenomena of polymer pinning on a defect line, the behavior of copolymers in proximity to an interface between selective solvents and the DNA denaturation transition. In spite of the apparent
• Titolo autorizzato: Random polymer models
• ISBN: 1-281-12068-5; 9786611120689; 1-86094-829-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784004603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II