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S L Narasimhan1, P S R Krishna, A K Rajarajan
1Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai-400 085, India. slnoo@magnum.barc.ernet.in
Abstract:
We show that the compact self-avoiding walk configurations, kinetically generated by the recently introduced interacting growth walk (IGW) model, can be considered as members of a canonical ensemble if they are assigned random values of energy. Such a mapping is necessary for studying the thermodynamic behavior of this system. We have presented the specific heat data for the IGW, obtained from extensive simulations on a square lattice; we observe a broad hump in the specific heat above the theta point, contrary to expectation.
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