On the reliability of mean-field methods in polymer statistical mechanics

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 8381-8389

  Tsonchev, Stefan ^a   Coalson, Rob D ^a   Chern, Shyh Shi ^a   Duncan, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

LATTICE MEAN-FIELD APPROACH; POLYMER STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0034321273     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1315995     Document Type: Article

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