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arxiv: cond-mat/0609053 · v2 · pith:7LHPQWZ6 · submitted 2006-09-04 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cond-mat.dis-nn

Scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media

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keywords scalingdisorderedlinearmediapolymerstextaverageaveraging
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Folklore has, that the universal scaling properties of linear polymers in disordered media are well described by the statistics of self-avoiding walks Folklore has, that the universal scaling properties of linear polymers in disordered media are well described by the statistics of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on percolation clusters and their critical exponent $\nu_{\text{SAW}}$, with SAW implicitly referring to \emph{average} SAW. Hitherto, static averaging has been commonly used, e.g. in numerical simulations, to determine what the \emph{average} SAW is. We assert that only kinetic, rather than static, averaging can lead to asymptotic scaling behavior and corroborate our assertion by heuristic arguments and a renormalizable field theory. Moreover, we calculate to two-loop order $\nu_{\text{SAW}}$, the exponent $\nu _{\text{max}}$ for the longest SAW, and a new family of multifractal exponents $\nu^{(\alpha)}$.

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