Scaling laws during collapse of a homopolymer: Lattice versus off-lattice

Suman Majumder, Henrik Christiansen, Wolfhard Janke

Published 2017-12-08Version 1

We present comparative results from simulations of a lattice and an off-lattice model of a homopolymer, in the context of kinetics of the collapse transition. Scaling laws related to the collapse time, cluster coarsening and aging behavior are compared. Although in both models the cluster growth is independent of temperature, the related exponents turn out to be different. Conversely, the aging and associated scaling properties are found to be universal, with the nonequilibrium autocorrelation exponent obeying a recently derived bound.