Author/Authors :
Schnabel، نويسنده , , Stefan de Vogel، نويسنده , , Thomas and Bachmann، نويسنده , , Michael and Janke، نويسنده , , Wolfhard، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Investigating thermodynamic properties of liquid–solid transitions of flexible homopolymers with elastic bonds by means of multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations, we find crystalline conformations that resemble ground-state structures of Lennard-Jones clusters. This allows us to set up a structural classification scheme for finite-length flexible polymers and their freezing mechanism in analogy to atomic cluster formation. Crystals of polymers with ‘magic length’ turn out to be perfectly icosahedral.
