Scale-free center-of-mass displacement correlations in polymer melts without topological constraints and momentum conservation: A bond-fluctuation model study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Wittmer, J P ^a   Polinska P ^a   Meyer, H ^a   Farago, J ^a   Johner, A ^a   Baschnagel, J ^a   Cavallo, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSION; ALGEBRAIC DECAY; BOND FLUCTUATION MODEL; CENTER-OF-MASS; CHAIN CONNECTIVITY; CHAIN RELAXATION; CHAIN SIZE; CORRELATED MOTIONS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; MEAN-SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; MONOMER DENSITY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SCALE-FREE; SUBCHAINS; TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMER MELTS;

POLYMER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS;

EID: 79959740897     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3601918     Document Type: Article

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