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A Rechnitzer

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Self-avoiding random walk with multiple site weightings and restrictions.

We introduce a new class of models for polymer collapse, given by random walks on regular lattices which are weighted according to multiple site visits. A Boltzmann weight omegal is assigned to each (l+1)-fold visited lattice site, and self-avoidance is incorporated by restricting to a maximal number K of visits to any site via setting omegal=0 for l>or=K. In this Letter we study this model on the square and simple cubic lattices for the case K=3. Moreover, we consider a variant of this model, in which we forbid immediate self-reversal of the random walk. We perform simulations for random walks up to n=1024 steps using FlatPERM, a flat histogram stochastic growth algorithm. We find evidence that the existence of a collapse transition depends sensitively on the details of the model and has an unexpected dependence on dimension.

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High precision canonical Monte Carlo determination of the growth constant of square lattice trees.

The number of lattice bond trees in the square lattice (counted modulo translations), t(n), is a basic quantity in lattice statistical mechanical models of branched polymers. This number is believed to have asymptotic behavior given by t(n) approximately Alambda(n)n(-theta), where A is an amplitude, lambda is the growth constant, and theta the entropic exponent. In this paper, we show that lambda and theta can be determined to high accuracy by using a canonical Monte Carlo algorithm; we find that lambda=5.1439+/-0.0025, theta=1.014+/-0.022, where the error bars are a combined 95% statistical confidence interval and an estimated systematic error due to uncertainties in modeling corrections to scaling. If one assumes the "exact value" theta=1 and then determines lambda, then the above estimate improves to lambda=5.143 39+/-0.000 72. In addition, we also determine the longest path exponent rho and the metric exponent nu from our data: rho=0.74000+/-0.00062, nu=0.6437+/-0.0035, with error bars similarly a combined 95% statistical confidence interval and an estimate of the systematic error.

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